Unpacking 1619 features interviews with scholars from around the country in which we unpack topics relating to the 1619 Project and race in America. Hosted by Adult Services Librarian John Piche.
John Piché
John Piché is an Adult Services Librarian at Heights Libraries. He has over 30 years of experience working in libraries, and an academic background in American History. In 2019, John launched a monthly 1619 Project discussion group at the Library. As the program grew in popularity, he began interviewing scholars on topics relating to the 1619 Project in 2020. He is excited to expand access to those interviews in the Unpacking 1619 podcast.
All Episodes
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Episode 59 - Judges and White Supremacy with Vida Johnson
Jun 25, 2024 •
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 fairness, but they often sustain and amplify racism through…
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Episode 58: How Parents Talked To Their Children About BLM with Onnie Rogers
Jun 11, 2024 •
Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, discusses her article, “Exploring Whether and How Black and White Parents Talk with Their Children about Race: M(ai)cro Race Conversations About Black Lives Matter.” which presents the results of an online survey conducted in 2020-2021. Professor Rogers details the ways in…
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Episode 55 - Radical Acts of Justice with Jocelyn Simonson
Apr 30, 2024 •
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 People,” Prof. Simonson points out how the criminal justice systems defines “community.” By looking at several ways activists…
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Episode 49 - Microaggressions with Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo
Feb 6, 2024 •
Dr. Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo discusses her article, “How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States.” She defines what microaggressions are and how they support White superiority. Through subtle and slight processes microaggressions protect and reinforce the “othering” of people of color with environmental exclusions, treating people of color…
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Episode 35 - Public Opinion of Reparations with Michael Conklin
Jul 26, 2023 • 30:03
Dr. Michael Conklin is the Powell Endowed Professor of Business Law at Angelo State University. He received his JD from Washburn School of Law, MBA from Oklahoma City University, Postgraduate Certificate in International Business Law from University of London, and Masters in Philosophy of Religion from Biola University. He has…
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Episode 41 - Black Slaves, Indian Masters with Barbara Krauthamer
Oct 18, 2023 • 26:38
Professor Barbara Krauthamer discusses her book, Black Slaves, Indian Masters, which examines the role of slavery in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations. She explores the tensions brought these Native American tribes by missionaries, trade, and the “civilizing” project of Euro-Americans. The role of slavery as a form of assimilation which…
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Episode 40 - Native American Slavery in New England with Margaret Ellen Newell
Oct 4, 2023 • 36:45
Professor Newell discusses her book, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, which explores the enslavement of Indians by the English Colonists in New England. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists’ desire for slaves shaped the…
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Episode 57 - Slavery Origins of Gynecology with Deirdre Cooper Owens
May 28, 2024 •
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 pregnancy and birth became the focus of their practices. Dr. James Marion Sims…
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Episode 56 - Auburn Prison and the Murder that Shocked America with Robin Bernstein
May 14, 2024 •
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 conditions, solitary and silent confinement, and constant violence, the inmates’…
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Episode 54 - Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum with Antonia Hylton
Apr 16, 2024 •
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 resistance. Tracing the history of Crownsville was difficult since…