35. The Story Of Us (Part 2)

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Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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With Bryan Stevenson, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ruha Benjamin, and David Blight In the second half of a two-part episode on the stories that shape our understanding of America, Kimberlé Crenshaw and special guests explore the ways that film and other technologies have reproduced and popularized these dominant stories. The episode examines Hollywood’s role in writing and rewriting history, and asks how we can begin writing new stories that tell the full story of us. With:  RUHA BENJAMIN- Professor of American Studies, Princeton University; Author, Race After Technology DAVID BLIGHT - Professor of American History, Yale University; Author, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom BRYAN STEVENSON - Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative; Author, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption VIET THANH NGUYEN- Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California; Author, The Sympathizer Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)  Produced and edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine Support provided by Amarachi Anakaraonye, Rebecca Scheckman, Destiny Spruill, and the African American Policy Forum  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. I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is intersectionality matters. In part one of this
1:16.0	special two-parter, the story of us, we spoke to Brian Stevenson, David Blyte, Vietan-Win,
1:22.6	and Ruha Benjamin about some of the stories that shape our understanding of America.
1:29.1	Today, on Part 2, we'll explore the ways that these dominant stories are then reproduced
1:35.1	and popularized through film and through other technologies.
1:39.4	To hear more about the origins of this conversation, check out Part 1.
1:50.5	Music more about the origins of this conversation, check out part one. In the 1993 documentary, D.W. Griffith, the father of film, William Walker, an African-American
1:58.4	man, shares the harrowing experience of watching Birth
2:02.3	of a Nation in 1916 in a Black-only theater.
2:06.4	Some people were crying.
2:09.2	You could hear people say, oh God, you had the worst feeling in the world.
2:15.6	It just felt like you were, you were not counted.
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