Vida Johnson, professor at law at Georgetown law, discusses her article "White Supremacy and the Bench." In which she describes how judges maintain and enforce structural racism. Judges benefit from a cultural cache of authority, prestige and as unbiased arbiters of...
Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens discusses her book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, which traces the origins of American reproductive health to slave hospitals. As white doctors expanded their practices onto plantations, quickly...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poReylr2aUo Professor Jocelyn Simonson talks about her book, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Beginning with a close look at the ideological meaning behind calling the prosecution, "The...
Professor Robin Bernstein discusses her book, Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison For Profit. Auburn Prison in Upstate New York was designed to be a factory prison, incorporating the area's major industry into its walls. Through harsh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfGQQTVQfw Professor Stephen Kenny discusses his article, “A Dictate of Both Interest and Mercy”: Slave Hospitals in the Antebellum South.” Beginning on the shores of West Africa, White doctors began to systematize racialized medicine...
Antonia Hylton discusses her book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. Ms. Hylton's extensive research into Crownsville Hospital in Maryland, a segregated asylum that was both hospital and prison, serves as physical example of racist systems and black...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FCuhSJvlbA Kidada E. Williams discusses her book, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction. Professor Williams begins by describing how she elevated and amplified the voices of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHPrua18Yy8 Journalist Laura Meckler of the Washington Post discusses her book, Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. Beginning with a historical overview of the Cleveland suburb and its uncanny ability to propel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_fEc7qjEXk Professor Andrew McKevitt talks about his book, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America." America's gun culture was not an inevitable outcome of the Second Amendment and Professor McKevitt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlUV7Sujxo Lerone Martin discusses his new book, "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism." Prof. Martin argues that J. Edgar Hoover molded the FBI after his own personal and...