The Invention of Racism

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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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Episode 38: Algorithmic Blues: CHAT-GPT Artificial Intelligence Explains Racism

Mar 10 2023 22 mins

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)

Episode 37: Racist Political Rhetoric as Bloodsport and Human Equality

Oct 23 2022 20 mins

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: Ra

Episode 36: The Racist Negation of Enslaved and Free Black Women

Jul 01 2022 27 mins

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

Episode 35: The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-Racism

Apr 30 2022 29 mins

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., “

Episode 34: A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood

Mar 31 2022 20 mins

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, Miscegena

Episode 33: Rumors of a Race War

Feb 28 2022 26 mins

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 fo

Episode 32: Black Women, SCOTUS, and the Politics of Post-Truth Racism

Jan 31 2022 26 mins

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

Episode 31: The Racist Great Replacement Theory and Preemptive Retaliation

Dec 31 2021 24 mins

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

Episode 30: Incidental Notes on Racism and the Rittenhouse Murder Trial

Nov 30 2021 28 mins

Episode Description—This podcast episode explores the immediate aftermath of the 2021 Rittenhouse Murder Trial. Key words: Racism, Rittenhouse Murder Trial, Jacob Blake Shooting, World To Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism And History, White Militias, White Vigilantes, White Supremacy, George Floyd, Dual Standards of Justice, Black Lives Matter, White Liberal Politics,

Episode 29: A Brief Note on the Paradigm of Racist Predation

Oct 31 2021 11 mins

This podcast episode briefly covers the Paradigm of Racist Predation. Key words: Racism, Racist Predation, Human Predatory Behavior, Leslie’s Weekly, Lynching, NAACP, The Crisis, Animal Biology, World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism and History, Work-In-Progress, James Byrd, Phillip Mbuji Johansen, “Solitary, Institutional, and Social Predation.”The Invention