13. Under the Blacklight: COVID & Disaster White Supremacy

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On Episode Four of “Under The Blacklight: The Intersectional Failures that COVID Lays Bare,” Paul Butler (Professor of Law, Georgetown; Author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men), Bree Newsome Bass (Community organizer & artist), Barbara Arnwine (Founder and Director, Transformative Justice Coalition), Kehinde Andrews (Professor, Birmingham City University; Author of Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century), and Jonathan Metzl (Professor, Vanderbilt University; Author of Dying of Whiteness) examine the role of Disaster White Supremacy in shaping the current crisis. Together with Kimberle Crenshaw, the five panelists mine the different locations where White Supremacy has been deployed and unveiled amidst crisis -- from voting booths in Wisconsin, royal handshakes at 10 Downing Street, and gun stores in the “American heartland,” to overcrowded jails in Chicago, public housing in the American South, and the chambers of Congress. In the coming weeks, we'll continue hosting live events that bring together artists, activists, thought leaders, scholars, service-providers and others on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19. Each Wednesday we’ll bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will be released as an episode of Intersectionality Matters! the following week. Read full bios of panelists here: aapf.org/under-the-blacklight-covid19 Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine Additional support provided by Andrew Sun, Emmett O’Malley, Michael Kramer, Janeen Irving, Alanna Kane Music by Blue Dot Sessions Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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0:00.0	COVID-19 has changed everything, halting life as we know it in its tracks.
0:08.0	To respond to this global pandemic and to adapt to this new way of life,
0:13.0	we're doing things a bit more DIY than usual.
0:17.0	We're not in the studio and we're dispersed all over the country, but we did want to respond to the urgent need for information,
0:24.6	bringing to you the voices of some of the leading experts to help us grapple with the new and not so new dimensions of this crisis.
0:32.6	It's in this vein that we're calling the series Under the Black Light to uncover the conditions
0:39.1	that pre-existed the virus and the cracks in our social structure that the virus can now exploit
0:45.5	to wreak maximum havoc. In the coming weeks, we'll be producing live conversations that
0:52.3	bring together artists, activists, thought leaders, scholars, service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.
1:01.2	Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released as an episode of intersectionality matters in the following week.
1:12.6	This conversation brought together five panelists.
1:15.6	Bree Newsom, Paul Butler, Jonathan Metzell, Barbara Arnwine, and Cahendi Andrews.
1:22.6	Full bios are available at our website, aAPF.org.
1:27.6	So let's dive right in.
1:31.0	Paul, I wonder if you would share some of the snapshots from the interaction between COVID,
1:40.2	racialized policing, and mass incarceration in the U.S.
1:45.0	The first snaps shot is of my hometown, Chicago, and it's 1918.
1:53.0	1918 is the only year from 1900 to 1999 that African Americans didn't disproportionately die of the flu.
2:04.8	The Spanish flu proportionally killed more white people than African Americans.
2:12.3	Why is that? You know, they tried to blame our bodies.
2:17.1	They said it had to do with the thickness of our noses.
2:20.3	And we know that's ridiculous because if that were the explanation, why would African Americans disproportionately die of respiratory illnesses other times?
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