2.5 Racial Literacy on Campus with Jessie Daniels

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Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• What do you do when you're having a bad day?
• What does it mean to disrupt white supremacy and how can we do that effectively within higher ed?
• Ways of advancing racial literacy on campus.
• Disrupting white supremacy happens over generations.
• How white supremacy operates in admissions in hiring through conversations about excellence, standards, culture fit, and quality.
• The relationship between free speech and hate speech.
• The importance of thinking of speech in terms of harm and asking: who is being harmed by the kind of speech w're inviting onto our campuses?
• The importance of racial literacy within EDI committees on campus and moving beyond bias and implicit bias.
• The ways in which white women and men can step back and open up spaces for people of color to take the lead at our institutions.
• Far right attacks of faculty as attacks on public higher education and democracy.
• The shift in higher ed from a public good to a commodity.
• The challenge of being a public scholar and a scholar activist at a time when institutions are ill-prepared to protect faculty from threats and attacks.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Jessie Daniels
• Hunter College, Sociology Department
• Harvard's Berkman Klein Center
• Public Scholar Academy
• Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
• Jessie Daniel Ames
• Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
• Ebony and Ivory by Craig Wilder
• Tricia Matthew
• Written/Unwritten by Patricia Matthew
• Racist Culture by David Theo Goldberg
• Tressie McMillan Cottom on higher ed

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia