14. Under the Blacklight: History Rinsed and Repeated

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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On Episode Five of “Under The Blacklight,” David Blight, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, William Darity Jr., Ibram X. Kendi, and Kate Manne navigate the historical contours of the pandemic, and the pre-existing inequalities that shape its impact. Building on last week’s interrogation of “disaster white supremacy”, this week's conversation explores how intersecting systems of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and nationalism have converged to define another dark moment in American history. 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. Speakers: DAVID BLIGHT — Professor, Yale University; Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom EDUARDO BONILLA-SILVA — Professor, Duke University; President of the American Sociological Association; Author of Racism Without Racists WILLIAM DARITY JR. — Economist; Professor, Duke University; Director, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity IBRAM X. KENDI — Professor, American University; Author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America KATE MANNE — Professor, Cornell University; Author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (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, 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, 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, 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.
0:33.3	It's in this vein that we're calling the series Under the Black Light to uncover the conditions
0:39.0	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
0:52.2	bring together artists, activists, thought leaders,
0:55.0	scholars, service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.
1:01.0	Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released
1:06.0	as an episode of intersectionalitys in the following week.
1:20.8	In this episode, we're diving deeper into an idea we began to examine last week, disaster white supremacy.
1:30.3	Over the course of Under the Black Light, we've contextualized the current crises by looking to the past and understanding that our societal response to crises often serves as an opportunity for the reinforcement of pre-existing
1:37.3	inequalities. It's no accident that black, brown, and native people are being impacted by the disease
1:43.3	at substantially higher rates, and that frontline workers native people are being impacted by the disease at substantially higher rates,
1:45.0	and that frontline workers, disproportionately people of color, are being told that they are
1:50.4	essential and treated as though they are expendable. This is history, rinsed and repeated.
2:00.2	So let's dive in with Eduardo Bonilla Silva.
2:04.3	We're in a vicious cycle here.
2:06.2	At first, the virus was presented as this great leveler.
2:09.8	The talk was that the virus is colorblind.
2:12.4	It's all of us who are vulnerable.
2:15.0	Then, after a lot of prodding, attention finally turned to the shocking
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