The Invention of Racism
Discourse on racism is not for the faint of heart. The Invention of Racism podcast presents the subtle, and not so subtle, nuances of racism in the 21st century. Understanding and speaking the truth about racism is the first step toward combatting and ultimately eliminating it. Join us as we explore historic and contemporary topics inside of “The Invention of Racism.” The Invention of Racism podcast series begins September 30, 2020.
Podcasting since 2020 • 45 episodes
The Invention of Racism
Latest Episodes
Episode 38: Algorithmic Blues: CHAT-GPT Artificial Intelligence Explains Racism
This podcast episode examines how AI (Artificial intelligence), principally CHAT-GPT, challenges faculty and students in higher education by “crowd sourcing” extant digital knowledge and how it defines concepts like racism.Key Words: Rac...
March 10, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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22:47
Episode 37: Racist Political Rhetoric as Bloodsport and Human Equality
Episode Description—This podcast episode briefly examines selected examples of public political racist rhetoric leading up to the 2022 U.S. Midterm election season. The episode highlights Alexander Hamilton Stephens’s March 21, 1861 “Cornerston...
October 23, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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20:47
Episode 36: The Racist Negation of Enslaved and Free Black Women
This podcast episode, “The Racist Negation of Enslaved and Free Black Women,” briefly examines the erasure of the Black woman’s body, highlighting the period of slavery and the case of Pauline (Rabbeneck) of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1845.<...
July 01, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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27:10
Episode 35: The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-Racism
This episode, “The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-Racism,” reexamines three disturbing historical examples of racial violence in the U.S. history (past and recent) in order to offer a working definition of the term crypto-racism.Key words:...
April 30, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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29:08
Episode 34: A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood
This podcast episode, “A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood,” recounts two events in 1944 Mississippi history: the lynching of the Reverend Isaac Simmons; and Senator Theodore Bilbo’s speech on White Supremacy found in the Congress...
March 31, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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20:28