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Intersectionality Matters!

22. COVID, White Power, and the Unseeing of Race Again

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7814 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

As the vicious spike in COVID’s case count rocks the nation, this installment of “Under the Blacklight” focuses on the off-staging of race after weeks of protests about racial injustice. We ask: What has become of the supposed reckoning with white supremacy since George Floyd’s death? After weeks of uncovering the legacies of racism, are we at the bottom of a Sisyphusian hill again in insisting that race is as newsworthy in the disproportionate deaths of African Americans to COVID as it has been in the weeks of protest over police violence? And why has it been so difficult to connect the two?   With: BARBARA ARNWINE - President and Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition; President Emeritus of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law CAMARA PHYLLIS JONES -  Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard; Senior Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine JONATHAN METZL - Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt; Author, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR - Assistant professor of African American studies, Princeton University; Author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)
 Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine Additional support provided by Awoye Timpo, Emmett O’Malley, Michael Kramer, Gregory Bernstein Alanna Kane, Ricardo Guthrie
 Music by Blue Dot Sessions
 Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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0:00.0

The 2024 presidential election was marked by soaring highs and crushing lows. Black women, 91% of whom turned out for VP Harris, once again proved to be the most engaged, progressive, and resilient voting bloc.

0:16.0

In an election campaign where rampant sexism and racism was directed not only at Harris,

0:22.1

but at black women more broadly, the misogy noir we just witnessed is already being written

0:27.0

out of the analysis of what actually happened.

0:30.0

There seems to be a widening gap between what black women experienced and what the

0:34.1

pundit and political classes choose to talk about.

0:37.3

So join host Kimberly Crenshaw for a virtual under the blacklight conversation on December 3rd at 7 p.m. Eastern.

0:45.7

Black women advocates, activists, and analysts will offer their side of the story about the election

0:50.9

and highlight the risks to our democracy if we continue to erase black women

0:56.2

and their experiences. Register for free at Bitley slash Election 24 Road Ahead. That's Bitley

1:04.5

slash Election 24 Road Ahead. COVID-19 has changed everything, halting life as we know it in its tracks.

1:16.4

To respond to this global pandemic and to adapt to this new way of life, we're doing things a bit

1:22.3

more DIY than usual. We're not in the studio and we're dispersed all over the country, but we did want to

1:30.0

respond to the urgent need for information, bringing to you the voices of some of the leading

1:35.3

experts to help us grapple with the new and not so new dimensions of this crisis.

1:41.1

It's in this vein that we're calling the series Under the Black Light to uncover the conditions

1:46.9

that pre-existed the virus and the cracks in our social structure that the virus can now exploit

1:53.1

to wreak maximum havoc.

1:55.5

In the coming weeks, we'll be producing live conversations that bring together artists,

2:00.4

activists, thought leaders, scholars,

2:01.9

service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19. Each Wednesday

2:08.4

will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released as an episode of

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