White People Work

Mar 03 2025 36 ep. 38 mins 7
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White people work is a podcast designed to help white folks come to better understand themselves and grow in taking responsibility for their presence in the world. While white folks and their growth in awareness and responsibility is the primary focus, folks of color are encouraged to be a part of this journey and speak into it. Season one will have ten episodes, each with Scott answering a different question related to race and whiteness. Music is performed, recorded, and mixed by Scott Hall, mastered by Erin Hamilton.

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Season Four, Episode Six: What Does the Turn of the 19th to 20th Century Have to Teach Us?

Mar 03 2025 31 mins  
In this episode, Scott goes back into history mode, leaning heavily on the amazing work of Princeton historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter in looking at what the turn of the 19th to 20th century in the US has to teach us about what we're in the midst of today. Tariffs, immigration, deportations, oligarchs, and the resurgence of white supremacist groups are just a few of the parallel iss

Season Four, Episode Five: Scott's Attempts to Transcend His Own Humanity in this Stressful Political Climate.

Feb 24 2025 20 mins  
In this episode, Scott shares in a very live way the ways that he has had a recent revelation that he's been attempting to transcend his humanity in the way he's carried his own emotions and concerns with all that happening in the US political sphere in the present. Scott shares vulnerably about his own arrogant assumptions about soldiering on as a good white person in these dynami

Season Four, Episode Four: White Ethnic Homecoming and the Hypothesis of a Place Wound with Chris Centracchio.

Feb 17 2025 55 mins  
Scott interviews friend and co-founder of Italian Homecoming, Chris Centracchio, discussing the story of Chris's experience of being received by his long-lost Italian relatives, and the felt need it brings to the surface for many white European Americans. Chris shares his story of growing up as an Italian American in Rhode Island, the complexities of his grandmother's relationship

Season Four, Episode Three: DEI Has Never Threatened Me.

Feb 10 2025 36 mins  
In this episode Scott shares his experience of diversity, equity, and inclusion, how they have never threatened him, and why the stated narratives of DEI being dismantled in favor of merit don't hold up under scrutiny. Additionally, Scott covers the opposition to critical race theory and honest about US history, and offers tools for naming, dissecting, and evaluating narratives abo

Season Four, Episode Two: Dr. Corey Clay's Perspective on Race in US Politics

Feb 03 2025 58 mins  
Scott interviews Dr. Corey Clay, a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology, and recent director of diversity and inclusion for the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Clay shares his unique life journey--from Texas to the military to corrections to academia--and how it has led him to be passionate about advocating for the rights of African Amer

Season Four, Episode One: Words, Actions, and Politics.

Jan 27 2025 29 mins  
This episode kicks off the start of season four with Scott sharing about the interesting relationship between words and actions as a set up for the season. He introduces the theme of the season, which will observe current political rhetoric, values, and decision-making through the lens of whiteness. Scott starts the observation by discussing the inauguration day declaration that De

Season Three, Episode 10: How Does Class Shape the White People Conversation

Jun 03 2024 47 mins  
In this final episode of season three, Scott invites a guest speaker to share her experiences of growing up in an under-resourced community as a white person. Scott and the guest journey into some of the complexities of how race and class combine to chart different paths of understanding what it means to be a white European American. This episode is, in many ways, a composite of ma

Season Three, Episode 9: The Problems With Growth Through Seeking More Information

May 20 2024 27 mins  
In this episode Scott shares a recent insight from his friend about the ways white folks tend to seek more information about racial injustice, when they're not putting into practice the information they've already learned. Beyond that, Scott explores some of the insights from James Baldwin about the unconscious awareness that all white folks carry, and the importance of white folks

Season Three, Episode 8: Relearning Lessons and the Wisdom of the Spiral

May 06 2024 20 mins  
In this episode Scott live-processes his experiences in Ireland, and the way that he got the pilgrimage he needed, not the one he wanted. Scott brings a present-tense level of processing the humiliating nature of learning the same lessons over again with higher stakes, and how that is part and parcel toward the ongoing journey of getting out from underneath whiteness as while peopl

Season Three, Episode 7: How Whiteness Leads Us to a Violent Way of Being in the World

Apr 22 2024 35 mins  
Scott goes back to the "stick" in this episode, breaking down his take on how the ideology of whiteness leads people to a violent way of being in the world. He takes the tenants of whiteness--the god-complex that centers itself, controls others, and seeks to transcend humanity--and breaks down how these lead those under the influence of whiteness toward a violent way of relating to