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.
Episodes
45 episodes since 2020
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
Episode 33: Rumors of a Race War
This podcast episode, “Rumors of a Race War,” briefly examines the idea of a race war in the American mind. Two disparate yet related events highlighted in the long history of American race relations is the Helter Skelter race war moti...
February 28, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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26:25
Episode 32: Black Women, SCOTUS, and the Politics of Post-Truth Racism
This podcast episode, “Black Women, SCOTUS, and the Politics of Post-Truth Racism,” looks at the preliminary racist reaction to a Black woman nominee for the United States Supreme Court—with brief notes on the SCOTUS nomination’s connection to ...
January 31, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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26:33
Episode 31: The Racist Great Replacement Theory and Preemptive Retaliation
This podcast episode considers the Far-Right racist philosophy known as the “Great Replacement Theory” with a note on the concept, Preemptive Retaliation. Key words: Racism, Great Replacement Theory (GRT), White Supremacy, Native Am...
December 31, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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24:15
Episode 30: Incidental Notes on Racism and the Rittenhouse Murder Trial
Episode Description—This podcast episode explores the immediate aftermath of the 2021 Rittenhouse Murder Trial. Key words: Racism, Rittenhouse Murder Trial, Jacob Blake Shooting, World To Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism ...
November 30, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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28:22
Episode 29: A Brief Note on the Paradigm of Racist Predation
This podcast episode briefly covers the Paradigm of Racist Predation. Key words: Racism, Racist Predation, Human Predatory Behavior, Leslie’s Weekly, Lynching, NAACP, The Crisis, Animal Biology, World to Come
October 31, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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11:04
Bonus Episode 6: An Historical Account of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Anti-Lynching Texts, Kawaida Womanism, and the Sacred
Episode Description—This bonus podcast episode (live) is for those who follow Dr. Bankole-Medina’s scholarly endeavors!Key words: Dr. Jennifer Williams, Racial Violence (Lynching), Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Kawaida Philosophy, Kawaida Womani...
October 15, 2021
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Season 2
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5:00
Episode 28: The Authoritarian Racist Personality (ARP)
Episode Description—In this episode we consider The Authoritarian Racist Personality.Key words: Racism, Rhineland Germany, J.A. Rogers, Edward Scobie, Ivan Van Sertima, World War I, Afro-German, Nazi Third Reich, Rhineland Basta...
September 30, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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20:44
Episode 27: Racist Game Theory
This episode explores Racist Game Theory. Key words: Racism, White Supremacy, White Privilege, Game Theory, Racist Game Theory, Black Men, Voter Suppression, Brennen Center for Justice, Attempted Murder, Critical Race Theory, Racism In Mortgage...
August 31, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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22:40
Episode 26: Narcissistic Racism—The Trials and Triumphs of Cori Bush
Episode Description—This podcast episode, “Narcissistic Racism—The Trials and Triumphs of Cori Bush,” explores what constitutes the idea of Narcissistic Racism, and how this concept highlights the recent death threats levied against U.S. Congre...
July 31, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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34:21
Episode 25: The First Rule of Racism…
This episode explores the reproduction of racism through silence and the restriction of knowledge and information by looking at the pop culture film Fight Club and the famous tagline: "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk ab...
June 30, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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25:14
Episode 24: #WhenRacistsMisLabelThings—The Myths Surrounding Critical Race Theory
This episode explores the racism inherent in the current public discussion over, and attacks against, Critical Race Theory. Key words: Racism, Critical Race Theory, War, Myth, Mislabeling, Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Manifest...
May 31, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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23:15
Episode 23: Racist Surrealism, The Chauvin Verdict, and the Plea for Justice
This podcast episode, “Racist Surrealism, The Chauvin Verdict, and the Plea for Justice,” is a recap (with commentary) of the recent court decision which convicted former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derrick Chauvin for the 2020 murder...
April 28, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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31:13
Episode 22: Racecraft and the Idea of African American Vaccine Hesitancy
In this episode we join the discussion surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine and the public notion of vaccine hesitancy in the Black community. Key words: Race, Racism, Racecraft, Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, A Woman Doctor’s Civil War, Gerald Sc...
March 14, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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31:08
Bonus Episode 5: Toward of A Methodology for Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in the New Age
In this bonus episode, Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina delivers the keynote lecture at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Virtual Celebration hosted by San Diego State University. This even was recorded Friday, January 22, 2021. Key words: Racism, Martin...
February 03, 2021
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Season 2
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27:08
Episode 21: White Privilege and the Messy Coup
This episode looks briefly at White privilege and the coup attempt that occurred in the United States on January 6, 2021. Key words: Racism, United States Coup, Domestic Terrorism, White Privilege, Racial Double Standards, Joy Ann Reid...
January 11, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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37:56
Episode 20: Hood Racism--The KKK Cypher
This episode, “Hood Racism—The KKK Cypher,” takes a brief look at the early history of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States with emphasis on the role of secrecy. Key topics: Racism, Ku Klux Klan, KKK, secrecy, Confederacy, Psychological manipu...
December 25, 2020
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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15:26
Episode 19: A Good Deed and the White Supremacist Online Surveillance of Black People
This episode, “A Good Deed and the White Supremacist Online Surveillance of Black People,” relates a personal narrative about being threatened online with militant racism in the time of COVID-19. Key words: Race, Racism, White Supremacy, Survei...
December 13, 2020
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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25:59
Episode 18: Racism Has Always Been a Public Health Crisis
This episode explores the basic concept of public health; the recent phenomenon of cities, counties, and national organizations declaring racism a public health crisis; important questions and concerns about the declaration that racism is an ur...
December 05, 2020
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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30:12
Episode 17: The Racist Pedagogics of Prejudice and Privilege
This episode explores “The Racist Pedagogics of Prejudice and Privilege” by briefly surveying, through four case summaries, how racist ideas are taught, maintained, and reinforced among White people. Key words: Racism, Race Relations, White Sup...
November 29, 2020
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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30:03
Episode 16: Rituals of Racism—False Accusations and the Attack on Black Lives Matter
Episode Description—This episode explores one of the many “Rituals of Racism.” One ritual is the phenomenon of False Accusations made against Black people; and how this practice, in one recent example, is related to the attack on the Black Live...
November 19, 2020
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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25:09