The Invention of Racism

Episode 35: The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-Racism

April 30, 2022 Katherine Bankole-Medina Season 2 Episode 35

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: Racism, White Supremacy, Crypto-Racism (Working Definition), Hate Crimes, Covert Racism, Slave Catchers, Solomon Northup, James Byrd, Jr., “Solomon Northup's Odyssey” (film), “12 Years a Slave” (film), Twelve Years Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City In 1841, and Rescued In 1853, From A Cotton Plantation Near The Red River In Louisiana (1854), Merrill Brown, Abram Hamilton, Joyce King, Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas, Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, John King, Emanuel A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.), Emanuel A.M.E. Church massacre (2015). Clementa C. Pinckney, Cynthia Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel L. Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Myra Thompson, White Supremacist ideology, Dylann Storm Roof, Great Replacement theory (GRT), Spoiler alert: Solomon Northup’s chronicle, Content warning: graphic descriptions and allusions to racist violence. 

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