How Do the Legacies Of Slavery And Jim Crow Laws Still Affect Americans Today? with Deborah N. Archer

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Professor Deborah N. Archer sits down with Jonathan to explore what it was like to be a Black American before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how remnants of Jim Crow laws continue to plague our country. Professor Archer is an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at NYU, Co-Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law. She received her JD from Yale Law School, where she was also awarded the Charles G. Albom Prize. She’s held several esteemed titles throughout her career, and New York Law Journal has recently recognized her as one of New York's “Top Women in the Law.” Professor Archer is on Twitter @DeborahNArcher, @RaceNYU, and @NYULaw. To find out more about Deborah’s work, visit https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/race-inequality-law. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious and Happy Black History Month.
0:04.4	I'm Jonathan Bennes and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant
0:09.2	expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:13.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by associate professor of clinical law and director of
0:17.4	the Civil Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law, Deborah Archer, where I ask her, how does
0:23.0	the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws still affect Americans today?
0:29.3	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Bennes.
0:31.0	I'm going to get straight into our guest this week.
0:33.4	Welcome, Deborah Archer.
0:35.6	You are an NYU professor of, I was just joking and saying a good, Jillian things, but you
0:40.8	have, you do have very many jobs.
0:43.9	So could you just tell everyone like what is your scope of professorship?
0:48.4	Well, thank you for having me.
0:50.5	I'm a professor of law at New York University School of Law and I teach in areas of civil
0:56.0	rights and racial discrimination.
0:57.9	I also help run a center at NYU called the Center on Race and Equality and the Law.
1:04.1	And outside of my full time job, I have a bunch of other roles including being a board member
1:08.8	of the American Civil and Rees Union.
1:10.5	So does that give you like a ton of free time?
1:12.8	Yes, and I, in that free time I squeeze in being a parent to two kids where I, where I
1:17.4	can.
1:18.4	Ah, well, thank you so much for taking your time to come here and to talk to us.
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