What is Brown?: The Fear and Future of a Black Planet feat. Alan Pelaez(@Migrantscribble)

Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

iHartEricka

Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

BIPOC, POC, NBPOC and other acronyms for Others...what are their origins and how do they inform a desire for and distance from Blackness across nation-states? Is the term POC a relic from slavery legislation in the US or a useful modifier that can unify the "global majority"? Leading up to Transgender Awareness Week we get deep into it all and mo' with our love and special guest, afroindígena poet, award winning author and artist Alan Pelaez (They/Them)! Support for this episode can go directly to Alan: Venmo--@migrantscribble Recommended Reading: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/30/295931070/the-journey-from-colored-to-minorities-to-people-of-color https://thegrio.com/2021/05/01/black-freedmen-tribal-struggle/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714413.2021.1968235?scroll=top&needAccess=true#b0001 All things Alan: https://linktr.ee/MigrantScribble

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0:11.4	We got burkins
0:14.0	You feel what I'm saying we got everything real real real real real real real real at the real real dot com
0:23.8	We are not sponsored by the real real that was just a little jokey Joe would never be nice
0:28.5	Sorry, no, no, no, absolutely
0:34.3	I don't know if I ever tell this story. I went to a group interview at Ricky's one time. I
0:39.7	Think I was homeless in New York at this point. That's another pie. Jesus. We really need to do that podcast
0:46.7	We need to do that
0:58.5	Closer lips
1:00.1	But anyway, you know brother was on the street or whatever the case may be
1:05.5	And I decided to go try to find a job and uh, I went to Ricky's and I applied and I actually got to the group interview
1:14.7	Wow
1:16.2	Say one word to describe yourself and I think I said what the hell did I say?
1:22.8	I think it was unassuming and I think they might have like interpreted that to me that
1:28.5	Still or something so I just said one word. It's a one word to describe. It's up. Not unassuming
1:36.0	It might have been like a serious. I don't know if it was a mysterious, but like it was something. That's like, okay
1:42.3	This might probably be a here's the only
1:44.8	Sleepy was the worst sneaky. No, but I said clandestine maybe I don't
1:53.3	Everybody welcome to another episode of hit rat to hit rat
1:57.7	Coming to you live in direct from the house
2:02.3	You know, I'm talking about
2:04.5	I'm so sorry everybody, you know for how little
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