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May 21, 2018EpisodesAsian Men, Issa Raechampagnesharks

We have two writers for the online Asian-American magazine Plan A to discuss the recent controversy about Issa Rae and Asian men. Mont Jiang is a founder of Plan A Magazine, and contributes under the name Five Alive. He lives in Brooklyn and you can find him on Twitter at @Mont_Jiang. Oxford Kondō is a writer for Plan A Magazine and podcaster for Escape From Plan A. He, along with several others, founded the publication out of a desire to shake up the mainstream Asian American dialogue. He lives/works in NYC and you can find him on Twitter at @oxford_kondo.

Mentioned in this episode:

A thread I did describing the controversy: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/990740613531340800.html
Ratchetpiece theater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtJOaBer5kk
We Have An Asian President In Obama: https://planamag.com/we-had-an-asian-president-in-barack-obama-7db41b750d49
Does Issa Rae Believe Black Women and Asian Men Can Save Each Other?: https://planamag.com/does-issa-rae-believe-black-women-and-asian-men-can-save-each-other-f4c9f054c45c
A video where Issa Rae doubled down on it, for those who say she was doing satire: https://twitter.com/oluwablk/status/990840994475241472
Issa Rae background:https://chicagodefender.com/2016/10/12/issa-rae-hbos-new-kid-on-the-block
Cosmo article by Issa Rae, “Can We Not Talk About My Race for a Minute?” https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a35024/can-we-not-talk-about-my-race-for-a-minute/ contrast with Donald Glover talking about race: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you
Opening paragraph: “This is an Obama show” also I do not understand the headline: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/05/issa-rae-media-presents-blackness-fierce-flawless-insecure
Interesting Issa bio https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/insecure-issa-rae-on-hbo-show-not-made-for-dudes-w500665
Tupac anecdote is very telling along with other stuff https://www.npr.org/2017/07/21/538328486/awkward-and-insecure-get-to-the-root-of-writer-issa-raes-humor
The validity of Rae’s respectability and escapism politics http://toofab.com/2018/02/12/issa-rae-insecure-season-3-no-trump-policy-metoo-times-up/

CS 087: The Throwaway People Pt. 3 (04/03/2018)

May 8, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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Mentioned in the episode:

The movie “Goodbye, Uncle Tom” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVFik44ay0I
The movie “Black Like Me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0q4XhxPAA&t=4759s
Relevant articles on all the Jeffrey Dahmer information discussed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Anderson#Killing_of_his_wife; https://nypost.com/2015/05/04/why-dahmers-killer-murdered-second-racist-inmate/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balcerzak; https://www.ranker.com/list/story-of-boy-police-gave-back-to-jeffrey-dahmer/amandatullos; https://blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/the-jeffrey-dahmer-victim-who-did-not-have-to-die/

Teaser for CS 086: White People Are Beautiful, Black People Are Sensual (5/10/2018)

May 6, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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Discussed in this episode:

Clip from Mandingo where the slaveowner finds out his wife has a sensual past and sensual desires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WC0F0_57LQ
Clip from Mandingo where the slaveowner starts falling for his black bed wench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRq_ue2I7u0
This thread describes how the Nazis used this idea of intellectual refined visuals as a celebration of whiteness and white beauty to advance white supremacist ideals: https://twitter.com/NowIsNotGood/status/899339804441272323
Tyler the Creator’s interview with Larry King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3y_9PNaoM
‘No Rice, No Curry And No Blacks’ – The sexual racism running rampant within the LGBT community https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/agenda/article/2016/08/25/no-rice-no-curry-and-no-blacks-sexual-racism-running-rampant-within-lgbt
Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong https://amzn.to/2KTOraa
Voodoo Doughnuts coverage: “Voodoo Doughnuts Have People Under A Sweet Spell” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob1yxoGK_cQ
Swedish racist cake controversy https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9210826/Swedish-bomb-threat-after-racist-cake-controversy.html
The battle over the traditional Swedish pastry “Negro Balls”. Removed from the Swedish dictionary: https://www.thelocal.se/20150323/swedish-dictionary-to-advise-against-racist-words; The Battle of the Swedish Chocolate Ball https://watchingtheswedes.com/2014/05/12/the-battle-of-the-swedish-chocolate-ball/

Teaser for CS 082: Stephon Clark, Gary Owen, Interracial Confusion Pt. 1 (04/08/2018)

April 23, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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Introduction Song:

Fxdslxsh – Oceans

Discussed in the episode:

Death Of Stephon Clark:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article208051604.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/us/stephon-clark-independent-autopsy.html

Stephon Clark’s Tweets anti black women:

https://twitter.com/JReid2014/status/979757725029752833

Twitter reactions:

https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/982306740568932352
https://twitter.com/pit_sen/status/980055392624562176
https://twitter.com/rhea_ban/status/979769635842256898
https://twitter.com/_sageariel/status/979732983686029312
https://twitter.com/ProBlkThought/status/980088972117409792

The nurse who got fired for racist Stephon Clark Facebook posts:

https://nypost.com/2018/03/31/nurse-sacked-for-saying-stephon-clark-deserved-to-be-killed-by-cops/

Fargo – A Rich Man Who Gave Everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9TOWIc_KLU

Scandal – The Virus of White Supremacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TASvOZXyE6k

CS 081: Black Men and Weath Study Pt. 2 feat. Tommy Curry (@DrTJC) (04/01/2018)

April 16, 2018EpisodesBlack Feminism, Black Homophobia, Black Men, Black Patriarchy, Tommy Currychampagnesharks

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Dr. Tommy Curry (http://www.twitter.com/DrTJC) rejoins us for a two-part episode to discuss recent findings about Black men in studies that have made the news from both the Equality of Opportunity Project (covered in the NY Times) and the Brookings Institute. We also offer Dr. Curry the opportunity to respond to criticisms about him and his work that we’ve heard over the past year.

Mentioned in the episode:

- The Brookings Institute’s study “The inheritance of black poverty: It’s all about the men” https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-inheritance-of-black-poverty-its-all-about-the-men/
- My tweet and thread showing the various ways Brookings tweeted the study before settling on the inflammatory clickbait tweet that finally got the attention: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/978638533345849345
- Article by Huffington Post summarizing the Princeton study by David Pedulla, “Unmaking Black Gay Privilege”: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-fitzgerald-gates-phd/unmasking-black-gay-privilege_b_6978224.html. A response to the study, “Black gay privilege is a ridiculous notion” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/27/black-gay-privilege-is-a-ridiculous-notion. Princeton’s summary of the study: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2014/05/15/negative-stereotypes-can-cancel-each-other-out-resumes; Pedulla’s study in full https://www.princeton.edu/csso/working-papers/WP7-Pedulla.pdf
- The Root discussing Stephon Clark’s anti-Black Woman tweets: https://www.theroot.com/judge-of-characters-the-hatred-of-black-women-1824991606; Essence discussing the same tweets, “It’s Time To Talk About Stephon Clark’s Anti-Black Women Tweets: Do Victims Have To Be Perfect To Garner Our Empathy?” https://www.essence.com/culture/stephon-clark-black-women-tweets
- Neely Fuller – Black Leaders Cannot Protect Black Folks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_igLsyfR98
- The C.O.W.S. with Dr. Frank B. Wilderson Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQahPQIr70
- “Blacks Are So Homophobic? Preview” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-cXZctfB0
- Patrice O’neal High Quailty White Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYKJ2z7mecQ

Teaser for CS 080: Donald Glover, Liberal White Racist Shade, and Tokens Pt. 2 (03/31/2018)

April 7, 2018EpisodesAtlanta, Donald Glover, Jodie Landon, New Yorker, Tad Friendchampagnesharks

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This is part one of two-part episode. We discuss a recent Donald Glover interview, the ways in which “good white people” are adept at throwing racist shade in a very gaslighting, subtle way and how Blavity Blacks love and fetishize the token black person experience.

Mentioned in this episode:

Music is “If This Ain’t Love” by Nicole Willis and the Investigators
Donald Glover New Yorker Article by Tad Friend: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you
My thread on the New Yorker Donald Glover article: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/974739510570504192
The Jodie Landon Daria video in a Buzzfeed tweet: https://twitter.com/AM2DM/status/970368961765302272
“Is Jodie Landon The Most Important TV Character Of The 90s?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqJ9XNw07-0
Ishmael Reed’s discussions on The Wire: “Should Harvard Teach A Course On The Wire?” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/harvard-wire-course_n_746896.html; “No, it relies on clichés about blacks and drugs” http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/30/no_it_relies_on_clichs_about_blacks_and_drugs/; “Faking the Hood” https://www.counterpunch.org/2008/03/15/faking-the-hood/;
“This Isn’t The First Time Network TV Discovered Black People” by Gene Demby https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/04/01/395777889/this-isnt-the-first-time-network-tv-discovered-black-people
The weird cottage industry of Blavity Buzzfeed style blerds doing thinkpieces about Jodie Landon from Daria over the years: “Jodie Abigail Landon, Queen Of The Negroes.” http://www.postbourgie.com/2010/05/12/jodie-abigail-landon-queen-of-the-negroes/; “On Race, Feminism, and Jodie Landon” http://www.geekquality.com/jodie-landon/; “Jodie Landon” https://lovelymelanin.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/jodie-landon/; “Reclaiming My Blackness: How I Realized I Was More than a Daria Wannabe” http://www.bkmag.com/2015/12/21/reclaiming-my-blackness-how-i-realized-i-was-more-than-a-daria-wannabe/; podcast episode of Carefree Black Nerd “Jodie Landon” https://soundcloud.com/carefreeblacknerd/cbn-season-2-issue-23-jodie-landon

CS 079: Black Men and Weath Study Pt. 1 feat. Tommy Curry (@DrTJC) (04/01/2018)

April 6, 2018EpisodesBlack Men, Black Patriarchy, Brookings, Raj Chetty, Tommy Currychampagnesharks

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Mentioned in the episode:

“Killing Boogeymen: Phallicism and the Misandric Mischaracterizations of Black Males in Theory” by Tommy J. Curry http://lawschoolmoodle.org/racism.org/images/pdf/Killing-Boogeymen.pdf
“Gender and Race Discrimination: The Interactive Nature of Disadvantage” by Jim Sidanius http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.452.6288&rep=rep1&type=pdf
“Racial Politics Complicated: The Work of Gendered Race Cues in American Politics” by Corrine M. McConnaughy and Ismail K. Whit https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6391/925becfa1e1f0a76f331ba0e52d3ab51b0e3.pdf
The NY Times article summarizing the Raj Chetty study: “Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys” by Emily Badger, Claire Cain Miller, Adam Pearce and Kevin Quealy https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html
Chetty study non-technical summary: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_summary.pdf and the full paper: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_paper.pdf
The Brookings Institute’s study “The inheritance of black poverty: It’s all about the men” https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-inheritance-of-black-poverty-its-all-about-the-men/
“Thank a Black Feminist” by Kimberly Foster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdjpY9gm_GA
“Can Black Patriarchy Exist Without Black Power?” by Yvette Carnell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPBqAqQEKg8
“No Black Male is the Head of Anything” by Neely Fuller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Rh9tPO9ek
“We Black Folks Are Still Boys and Girls” by Neely Fuller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0vXnhmJhKI

CS 076: Black Brazil feat. Wendi Muse (@musewendi) (03/24/2018)

March 25, 2018EpisodesBrazil, LeftPOC, Race, South Africa, Wendi Musechampagnesharks

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Wendi Muse is a PhD Candidate in History at New York University. Her research analyzes Lusophone Africans’ impact on the Brazilian left through intellectual and political exchange during the Cold War. In addition to her doctoral work, Wendi holds an MA in Latin American Studies and has conducted research regarding Afro-Brazilian women’s political organizing throughout the 20th century. Wendi is presently a 2017-2018 New York Public Humanities Fellow and a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to support her research in Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique. Wendi is the creator of the hashtag #LeftPOC and the Left POCket Project, which uses digital media to make the histories of leftists of color more easily accessible to the public. Her podcast can be found at https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc

Twitter: @MuseWendi & @LeftPOC

Race & Racism in Brazil

Articles:

On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco (written by Wendi & several professors who work on Brazil)

http://www.theblackscholar.org/on-the-imperative-of-transnational-solidarity-a-u-s-black-feminist-statement-on-the-assassination-of-marielle-franco/

“Afro-Brazilian Religions Struggle Against Evangelical Hostility”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/afro-brazilian-religions-struggle-against-evangelical-hostility/2015/02/05/b6a30c6e-aaf9-11e4-8876-460b1144cbc1_story.html?utm_term=.f7987f559cfe

“The Frente Negra Brasileira: In the 1930s, government and intelligence agencies extinguished the first large scale Afro-Brazilian rights organization

https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2014/01/30/the-frente-negra-brasileira-in-the-1930s-government-and-intelligence-agencies-extinguished-the-first-large-scale-afro-brazilian-rights-organization/

“Brazil’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ Struggle Even More Dire”

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-11-03/brazils-black-lives-matter-struggle-even-more-dire

(note: this article notes that Brazilian movements “echo” BLM, but the reality is that Brazil has had its own formal movements against police brutality since at least the 1960s, and informally well before then)

Books:

Paulina Alberto: Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil https://amzn.to/2IUbBfS

Petrônio Domingues – Uma História Não Contada: negro, racismo e branqueamento em São Paulo no pós-abolição. https://books.google.com/books/about/Uma_hist%C3%B3ria_n%C3%A3o_contada.html?hl=pt-BR&id=qao5gp0KjHoC

Jeffrey Lesser – Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil https://amzn.to/2DSWq2H

Edward Telles – Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil https://amzn.to/2G4tIlo

Barbara Weinstein – The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil https://amzn.to/2G7ZA8M

Erica L. Williams – Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements https://amzn.to/2DSWCPt

Mentioned in the episode:

The Herskovitz/Frazier debate on the retention of African culture in African-American culture: https://nicholaswallerblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/the-retention-of-african-culture/
“Black Like Mao” by Robin DG Kelley http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf

Teaser for CS 074 and 075, two part episode: Blue Checks vs. Fauxteps Black Gender Wars

March 22, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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We discuss the endless and divisive gender wars that happen on Twitter between the blue check Black Twitter accounts and the

Mentioned in the episode:

Opening speech is from Malcolm X’s “Message to the Grassroots” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku2JzolPt50
The NY Times article we discuss about how black boys and men are being disproportionately economically affected by racism and sexism, “Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys by Emily Badger, Claire Cain Miller, Adam Pearce and Kevin Quealy https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html
“Forget Killmonger — Wakanda’s women are ‘Black Panther’s’ true revolutionaries” by Karen Attiah https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/03/01/forget-the-abusive-killmonger-wakandas-women-are-black-panthers-true-black-liberators/

CS 073: The Political As Personal (03/07/2018)

March 13, 2018EpisodesDonald Glover, Roxane Gaychampagnesharks

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Intro song: “Gandi Baat” from the soundtrack of the Bollywood movie “R…Rajkumar” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvLBXO94EfA

Outro song: “Guleba” from the soundtrack of Tamil movie “Gulaebaghavali” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVgSyvzmbxw

- “Donald Glover Can’t Save You” by Tad Friend https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you
- “Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) On Being Racially Profiled, Seeing Someone Killed And Trayvon Martin” http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/30/donald-glover-childish-gambino-race_n_4174682.html
- Roxane Gay’s tweet about tokens and their presumed excellence: https://twitter.com/rgay/status/968616863658725376
- Roxane Gay’s campaign to write the Batgirl movie: http://variety.com/2018/film/news/roxane-gay-batgirl-movie-joss-whedon-1202708937/