Preview of CS 015: Racial Tourette’s or Walmart’s Nigger-Brown Snafu (07/18/2017)

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Recently Wal-Mart got in trouble for describing the color of a product on their website as “Nigger-Brown.” In this episode I wanted to go into why exactly so many people are doing so much racist spontaneous acting out  and how it relates to the alt-right’s obsession with “free speech.”

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The movie clip that starts off the episode is from the 1974 movie Trick Baby, based on Iceberg Slim’s book of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQ-YPjasGc

Breakdown of Wal-Mart’s Nigger-Brown Snafu: https://www.vibe.com/2017/07/walmart-n-brown-wig-cap/

Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy

The book: http://amzn.to/2uAhF8l

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFm93vMPUZw

That video link is especially a good video for elaborating on my points from this episode about how and why it’s psychically necessary for white sanity that black people remain some level of subhuman status in a system of white supremacy. I highly recommend watching the linked video or reading the linked book to get the most of this episode.

CS 014: Shame, Guilt, Nigger, Race Science

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CS 012: Black Girl Magic, Black Boy Tragic (07/08/2017)

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My issues with this current trend of Black Girl Magic as a form of activism, and the weird political earth-mother intersectional blerd cult that seems to have arisen around this trend, especially on Twitter.

Articles and twitter threads mentioned:

Who Gets to Own “Black Girl Magic” by Clover Hope: http://jezebel.com/who-gets-to-own-black-girl-magic-1793924053

Black Like Mao by Robin D.G. Kelley http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf

Luvvie thread: https://twitter.com/Luvvie/status/854755202238476288

Black PhD’s thread: https://twitter.com/prof_carrington/status/854728891524567040

Thread of Black woman pseudo-worship: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/882719599300685824

Skateboarder and the Black Women thread: https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/865269838700199936

My twitter thread on Black Girl Magic and how it unwittingly plays into the Magical Negro and Mammy stereotypes: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/883681773875601408

 

CS 010: Discussing Gentrification (07/02/2017)

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We had a whole agenda of topics for discussion today, but due to technical difficulties with losing co-host Mike (@blackexception1 on Twitter) and stalling while waiting for him to resolve his tech issues and come back (he never did), remaining co-host D. Mills (@mdmills79 on Twitter) and I ended up having a pretty fun unplanned discussion on gentrification.

CS 009 Preview: Interracial Dating and Staged Authenticity (06/28/2017)

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After a bunch of technical difficulties and delays, I finally bought a new laptop and this is the first episode using it. So far, so good.

Today we discuss answers to reader questions, including the topics of Black consciousness/liberation, the dynamics of interracial dating in a supposedly post-racial, gentrified landscape, and Twitter Hoteps.

The book The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class by Dean MacCannell is discussed: http://amzn.to/2s348lH

CS 008: Discussing Neely Fuller, Jr. (06/24/2017)

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Today D. Mills (@mdmills79 on twitter) and I discuss lessons we’ve learned from Neely Fuller, White Privilege discourse, the White Ally Industrial Complex, Coffee Creamers, and the formula white allies can follow if they truly want to help black people.

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CS 007 Preview: Afro-Pessimism feat. Dominick/@FanonsDream (06/18/2017)

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Today I’m joined by fellow Sharks and co-hosts D. Mills (@MDMills79 on Twitter) and Mike (@blackexception1 on Twitter). Our guest is Dominick (@FanonsDream) who schools us on Afro-Pessimism, a particular school of antiracism.

Books and articles cited:

Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya V. Hartman (http://amzn.to/2sOEO6v)

Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe by Hortense Spillers (https://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/hortense_spillers_-_mamas_baby_papas_maybe.pdf)

Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? by Frank Wilderson, III (https://theloon2013.wikispaces.com/file/view/Wilderson+-+Gramscis+Black+Marx.pdf)

CS 006: What Fanon Said feat. Lewis Gordon (06/13/2017)

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Today we discuss the work of Franz Fanon with Dr. Lewis Gordon (@lewgord on Twitter), Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, with affiliations in Judaic Studies and Caribbean, Latino/a, and Latin American Studies, at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. His bio can be found at http://www.lewisrgordon.com/biography/.

He is the author of What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (http://amzn.to/2rtzdha). We talked about the worldview of Fanon and how he still matters today.