16. Under the Blacklight: Mobilizing Whiteness to 'Re-Open America'

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4.7 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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On Episode Seven of “Under The Blacklight,” Carol Anderson, Alex DiBranco, Joseph Lowndes, Mab Segrest, Dorian Warren, and Jason Wilson unpack the central role that ideological Whiteness continues to play in the US response to COVID-19, including ongoing efforts -- on the part of individuals and institutions alike -- to unlock the lockdown. With: CAROL ANDERSON — Chair & Professor of African American Studies, Emory University; Author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide ALEX DIBRANCO - Co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism JOSEPH LOWNDES — Professor of Political Science, UOregon; Co-author of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity MAB SEGREST — Professor emeritus of Gender and Women’s Studies, Connecticut College; Organizer with Southerners on New Ground (SONG), Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) DORIAN WARREN — President of the Center for Community Change Action (CCCA) and Vice-President of the Center for Community Change (CCC) JASON WILSON — Journalist who specializes in far-right, white supremacist, and right-wing movements; Writes for The Guardian (Read full bios here: aapf.org/under-the-blacklight-covid19) Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)  Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine and Sarah Ventre  Additional support provided by Awoye Timpo, 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,
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
0:52.2	bring together artists, activists, thought
0:54.7	leaders, scholars, service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.
1:01.5	Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released
1:06.2	as an episode of intersectionalitys in the following week.
1:16.6	As we recorded this seventh episode of Under the Black Light, the official death toll from coronavirus in the United States surged past 70,000.
1:22.6	Models show that the death toll will continue to claim the lives of 3,000 or more people per day well into the summer.
1:32.3	Yet in the face of this horrific loss of life, the push to reopen the country grows louder and more threatening to lawmakers and civilians day by day.
1:43.3	The threat in the form of increasingly militant armed protests is taking place in states across the nation.
1:51.0	While tragedy and human carnage pervade every corner of American society, these protests repurposed the language of freedom to justify resistance to any notion of public welfare
2:03.5	and the protection of human life. And whiteness seems to be a condition to these protests
2:10.7	varied possibility. Anyone who remembers Black Lives Matter protesters being punished
2:16.6	physically and rhetorically certainly can
2:19.7	imagine a very different outcome had these protesters been gun-toting black and brown folk.
2:26.7	Symbols such as the Confederate flag and other racist signifiers make the presence of
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