(2015/11/03) Death by stereotype, the dehumanizing of women of color
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 4 November 2015
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Edition #965
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Black Girls Matter: Pushed out, over-policed and underprotected - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 2-6-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Put Your Records On (Acoustic) - Corinne Bailey Rae
Ch. 5: Song 2: You'll Find A Way - Santigold
Ch. 6: Act 3: Black Women Suffer Death By Stereotype - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 5-25-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Making Progress - Freedom's Progress
Ch. 8: Act 4: Serial killers hunted down mostly Black women for three decades in South Los Angeles - @Making_Contact - Air Date 9-9-10
Ch. 9: Song 4: Suffering of the Innocents - Squire Tuck
Ch. 10: Act 5: Obama highlights sexual abuse to prison pipeline - Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHPshow) - Air Date 9-20-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: I feel you - Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Ch. 12: Act 6: Why some try to justify the Spring Valley High assault - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBprime) - Air Date 10-28-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: How Do You See Me - Matrimony
Ch. 14: Act 7: The Story of a "Absolutely Angry Black Woman" - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 10-23-15
Ch. 15: Final comments on the value of slaves at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:23.3 | And now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cook Today from Counterspen, |
| 0:28.2 | Democracy Now, grit TV with Laura Flonders, making contact with Melissa Harris Perry show, |
| 0:33.6 | This Week in Blackness, and the Tom Harman program. |
| 0:41.0 | The Black Lives Matter movement has put a spotlight on real world racism in our supposedly |
| 0:46.7 | post-racial society and part of that is a challenge to corporate media's narrow and negative |
| 0:52.2 | portrayals. But the face of Black people in the conversation is overwhelmingly male. It might |
| 0:58.7 | surprise some, therefore, to realize that the same phenomenon that weigh on Black men and boys, |
| 1:04.5 | things like aggressive policing and the school-to-prison pipeline also affect Black women and girls, |
| 1:10.9 | which makes it all the more significant that proposed policy responses, things like Barack Obama's |
| 1:16.7 | My Brothers Keeper initiative, leave those women and girls out. A new report seeks to change that |
| 1:23.4 | conversation. It's called Black Girls Matter, pushed out, over-policed, and under-protected. |
| 1:30.0 | Its lead author is Professor Kimberly Crenshaw. She's co-founder of the African-American policy forum |
| 1:35.9 | on whose advisory board I serve, and director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy |
| 1:41.7 | Studies at Columbia Law School. She joins us now by phone. Welcome back to counterspin, Kimberly |
| 1:46.8 | Crenshaw. Thanks for having me, Jenny. Well, what were some of the immediate spurs to produce this |
| 1:53.7 | report? What's the contribution, or you might say intervention, that you're looking to achieve here? |
| 2:00.1 | Well, the report actually has somewhat of a long genealogy, and we're fortunate that it's come |
| 2:06.1 | out at a time where it's relevant, seems perhaps even more obvious than when we started thinking about it. |
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