14 episodes
a LATTO thought CA Davis
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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a LATTO thought evaluates contemporary misperceptions about mixed raceness through the lenses of history, science studies, and personal perspectives in a way that is pro-Black, antiracist, and self-critical. The intent is to arm individuals with the clarity of how systems of law and power shape our feelings about who — not ‘what’ — we as individuals are so that we can begin to reshape the societies in which we collectively live. After all, we’re all already mixed. We’re simply taught to not see it that way.
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a (little) LATTO: Sickle Cell Anemia
Augustín Fuentes (Prof. of Anthropology, Princeton) "joins" us again by way of a segment from his interview captured a year ago centered on the conflation between race and DNA—for that enlightening conversation, check out the episode "kinfolk, not skinfolk." However, in this segment, Augustín helps dispel another, related half-truth: the myth that sickle cell anemia is a racial genetic trait. // Music by Makaya McCraven [https://www.makayamccraven.com/]
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a (little) LATTO: 1968
A quick check in from CA on the year to come for a LATTO thought and a sneak peek at the next feature story. // Music by Makaya McCraven [https://www.makayamccraven.com/] and the Impressions
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In Our Blood: A People, Divided
The conclusion of a LATTO thought's first miniseries traces how Indigenous kinship has been damaged by centuries of racist and colonial American policies. Marilyn Vann (Cherokee Nation) and LeEtta Osborne-Sampson (Seminole Nation) share the painful fight that the descendents of Indigenous Freedmen have waged for civil rights within their own nations. Genocide in slow motion and the lack of one equal citizenship created a zero sum game that, left a people—a family—divided. But... that may not be the case for much longer.
Donate to the Seminole Freedmen legal fund:
Checks made out to Attorney John Parris mailed to:
Caesar Bruner Band
PO Box 300175
Oklahoma City, 73140
African Indians Foundation
PO Box 42452
Oklahoma City, 73123
(make a note it's for the Seminole Freedmen court case)
Paypal: Marilyn Vann's Freedmen Association [https://freedmen5tribes.com/], mkvann@africanindians.org (make a note that it's for the Seminole Freedmen court case)
Chickasaw and Choctaw Freedmen Twitter [https://twitter.com/choctawfreedmen?lang=en] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/choctawchickasawfreedmen/?hl=en] accounts
Music provided by Dawn Avery [https://www.dawnavery.com/], Makaya McCraven [https://www.makayamccraven.com/], and APM Music [https://www.apmmusic.com/]. Supported by TechRewire [https://www.techrewire.com/].
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a (little) LATTO: Loving Day, 2021
This Loving Day, CA reflects on the history of anti-miscegenation laws that were enforced on Filipino migrant workers as they moved further into the valleys of Southern California, as written in Alex S. Fabros Jr's (former Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University) article "When Hilario Met Sally." [http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/when-hilario-met-sally-the-fight-against-anti-miscegenation-laws] // Music by Makaya McCraven [https://www.makayamccraven.com/] from his albums Universal Beings and Universal Beings E&F Sides.
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In Our Blood: One Equal Citizenship
This Memorial Day will mark the 100th anniversary of one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history. But when we think back about the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, what are we missing? The inspiring and heartbreaking story of the fabled Black Main Street is indeed unique, but not because of the devastation that Black folks survived and rebuilt from its ashes. The second chapter of "In Our Blood" reveals that what set Greenwood apart from the rest of the nation—along with over fifty Black towns established in Oklahoma from 1865 to 1920—was the collision of the one drop rule and blood quantum. // Music provided by Kristina Sharpe [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83nXilNtDBUneDGC8Ldu6w], Dawn Avery [https://www.dawnavery.com/], Makaya McCraven [https://www.makayamccraven.com/], and APM Music [https://www.apmmusic.com/]. Supported by TechRewire [https://www.techrewire.com/].
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In Our Blood: Genocide in Slow Motion
In this first chapter of a LATTO thought's first miniseries, CA attempts to contain centuries of indigenous history in order to better understand the dynamics and consequences of the United States's concept of blood quantum — the racial calculus that led to Indigenous detribalization, land infringement, and how it began to collide with Jim Crow's antiblack one drop rule. Music by Dawn Avery [https://www.dawnavery.com/] and Makaya McCraven [https://www.makayamccraven.com/] // Support the show! [https://www.patreon.com/alattothought]
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Customer Reviews
True 5* show - one I will be returning to repeatedly
What I really like about Latto Thought is the story-telling - timely, well researched, nicely balancing the academic rigour with the narrative thrust. The elements are each and in themselves quite impressive - the research, the sound design, the people, each a massive task. The subject matter - race - needs an unflinching perspective but it hangs together comfortably and with a kind of lightness - I guess this comes down to the host’s very steady and relaxed tone, handling stark an serious material with gentleness. What for me is impressive is that, as a white man, it’s often hard to follow and to relate to how I might be blinded by my privilege. Latto thought makes it clear in a way that makes me want to keep listening, keep expanding my perspective, keep enjoying the rich historical and social context without feeling specifically excluded or demonised. When people talk about race I have often wondered about the plight of native peoples. Well, ahead of the game, this is promised (11/2020) in a new season. Very excited to listen.
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