The Invention of Racism

Katherine Bankole-Medina
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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.

  1. 03/10/2023

    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: Racism, Higher Education, White Supremacy, CHAT-GPT, Student Cheating, AI Tools, Calculators, AI Language Models, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), University Faculty, Ethics, Plagiarism, Opinion, Criminal Justice System, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Professor Ngozi Okidegbe, “Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competitiveness, Inclusion, and Innovation” (The U.S. Chamber of Commerce), Coded Bias (2020), Shalini Kantayya, Joy Buolamwini, Algorithmic Justice League, The South East London Girl. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2023 TIR Podcast Group.  #CiteBlackWomen Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina Notes: 1) Post COVID-19 infections and complications have significantly impacted the delivery of our podcast series. Thanks to our listener-supporters for reaching out; and 2) see the podcast series Disclaimer statement on TIR Podcast Group responsibility. About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina: http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/

    23 min

  2. 10/23/2022

    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 “Cornerstone” speech in order to contextualize contemporary racist political discourse and the idea of fundamental human equality. Key Words: Racism, White Supremacy, Doctrine of White Supremacy, Human Equality, Cornerstone speech, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Confederate States of America (CSA), American Slavery, Midterm Elections, Republican Party, Democratic Party, MAGA, Senator Tuberville, Senator Greene, Councilwoman Martinez, Abrams v. Tuberville, QAnon, Conspiracy Theories, Reparations, Daniel Smith, Crime, Immigrants, Oaxaca, Mexico, Great Replacement Theory, Black Children. Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Racist Speech, Racist Stereotypes, A Compendium of the History of the United States. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2022 TIR Podcast Group.  #CiteBlackWomen Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina Notes: 1) Post COVID-19 infections and complications have significantly impacted the delivery of our podcast series. Thanks to our listener-supporters for reaching out; and 2) See the podcast series Disclaimer for the statement on TIR Podcast Group responsibility. About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina: http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/

    21 min

  3. 07/01/2022

    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. Key Words: Racism, White Supremacy, Doctrine of White Supremacy, Sexism, Racist Negation, Black Women, Pauline (Rabbeneck), Peter Rabbeneck, New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana Black Codes (Code Noir), Enslaved African Women, Southern Rape Complex, Antebellum Crime and Punishment, Lynching, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemmings, Counterfactual History, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, Placage, Person of Color, Racial-Gender Hierarchy, gens de couleur libre, Color Gradient, Creole, Content Warning: Sexual Exploitation, Capital Punishment. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2022 TIR Podcast Group.  #CiteBlackWomen Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina: http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/

    27 min

  4. 04/30/2022

    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: 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.  The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2022 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved.  #CiteBlackWomen Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina: http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/

    29 min

  5. 03/31/2022

    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 Congressional Record. Content warning: descriptions of lynching, racial epithets.  Key Words: Racism, White Supremacy, Mississippi, Miscegenation, Lynching, Reverend Isaac Simmons, Eldridge Simmons, Theodore G. Bilbo, 78th Congress (1944), Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization, Doctrine of White Supremacy, Chester M. Morgan, Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), Property Theft, Historic Hate Crimes, Critical Race Theory, The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), Post-Script: Personal comment, Mississippi Senate Bill 2113, The Emmett Till Antilynching Act. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2022 TIR Podcast Group.  #CiteBlackWomen Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina: http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/

    20 min

  6. 02/28/2022

    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 motive used in the 1970 Charles Manson trial; and the government’s recent prosecution of three men—Cook, Frost, and Sawall—for attempting to foment a race war in the United States.  Key words: Racism, Race War, War, Content Warning, Racial Stereotypes, The Birth of a Nation (1915), Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Charles Manson, the Manson family, Tate-LaBianca murders, Helter Skelter, Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, The Power Grid Terrorists, Christopher Brenner Cook, Jonathan Allen Frost, Jackson Matthew Sawall, Suicide Necklaces, The Turner Diaries, William Luther Pierce (Andrew MacDonald), March On Washington (2020), Mayor Muriel Bowser, “FBI-Designated Significant Domestic Terrorism Incidents in the United States from 2015 through 2019,” Racially or Ethnically Motivated Extremism (RMVE), Samuel Yette, The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America, Post Script: Russian invasion of Ukraine.  The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2022 TIR Podcast Group.  #CiteBlackWomen Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina  About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina: http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/

    26 min

  7. 01/31/2022

    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 historical events surrounding the cases of Lani Guinier (1993) and Anita Hill (1991). Key words: Racism, Lani Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy, Lift Every Voice Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice, Black Women, SCOTUS, President Bill Clinton, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, SCOTUS shortlist 2022, Thurgood Marshall, President Joe Biden, Electoral politics, Anoa Changa, ABC News poll, Paul Rosenberg, Fake News, Miriam Ma’at Ka Re Monges, Maat (Kemetic Goddess), Maulana Karenga, Maat the Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt, Post-Truth, Personal Reflection.  The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2022 TIR Podcast Group.  #CiteBlackWomen Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina Bonus: Slide/Presentation — “Maat and the Feather of Truth,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3qz466dkY4 February 25, 2022—President Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to Serve on The U.S. Supreme Court About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina: http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/

    27 min

  8. 12/31/2021

    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 Americans, African Americans, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Cress Theory of Color Confrontation, The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors, J. H. Van Evrie, White Supremacy and Negro Subordination, Dr. DeReef F. Jamison, “Frances Cress Welsing: Decoding and Deconstructing the Cultural Logic of White Supremacy,” Dr. Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, Dr. Robert Pape, Chicago Project on Security and Threats, Milan Obaidi, Jonas R. Kunst, Simon Ozer, Sasha Y. Kimel, “The “Great Replacement” Conspiracy: How The Perceived Ousting Of Whites Can Evoke Violent Extremism And Islamophobia,” Mosque massacres (Christchurch, New Zealand), January 6, 2021 Insurrection,  Immigration, Preemptive Retaliation, Unite the Right rally, Disclaimer. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2021 TIR Podcast Group.  #CiteBlackWomen Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina: http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/

    24 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Katherine Bankole-Medina
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 The Invention of Racism
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