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Black Women, Ivory Tower / Jasmine Harris

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Dr. Jasmine L. Harris joins This Is Hell! to discuss her new book from Broadleaf Books, "Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education." "Rotten History" follows the interview, as do your first batch of responses to this week's Question from Hell! Check out Dr. Harris's book here: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506489834/Black-Women-Ivory-Tower Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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and I'm going to see.

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I think.

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I think I think.

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Thank you. You know what's going to be? The world is going to be

0:25.0

the world in the water you will be.

0:28.0

All right for our power to order. Picketer! This is hell.

0:55.0

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime?

1:03.0

Because this is hell.

1:05.0

And today we will be talking about the great fortunes at universities

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and the great crime of structural racism and at higher education. We are told that if you want to improve your

1:15.3

opportunities, all you need is an education. And the more schooling you complete, the greater

1:21.7

the likelihood you will achieve your life's goals.

1:26.0

When the entire community is underserved, the recommended response is often greater access

1:30.8

to education will solve your problems.

1:33.0

In prescribing such a solution, parents are often the ones who are held accountable

1:38.0

for any shortcomings a student may face in their education.

1:41.0

As we have a guest discussed in the past here on the show, this

1:45.2

individualizes the responsibility for an education, putting all the burden on a

1:49.5

parent without holding the system, or educational institutions accountable.

1:55.0

Let alone things like the shortcomings of American democracy or the political economy of capitalism,

2:01.0

or its latest version that has gut public schools that is neoliberalism.

2:05.0

But what if education isn't the cure all that policymakers have made it out to be that we hope it would be what if

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