This is a podcast of ETHN 6800 Critical Race Theory at Bowling Green State University. Our graduate seminar explores the most influential ideas and authors of Critical Race Theory. Each episode includes both a class discussion and a nationally-recognized guest scholar in the field of Critical Race Theory. Our class meets in the James Baldwin room (Baldwin was a visiting faculty member at BGSU in 1978-1979) in the Department of Ethnic Studies at BGSU, one of the first ethnic studies departments in the nation that just celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Our final episode features Prof. Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture, at Columbia Law School and one of the pioneering scholars of critical race theory.
22 Apr 2022
Ep. 13 - Erin Pineda on "Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement" (Oxford University Press 2021)
Erin Pineda, Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College, talks about her new book, "Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement" (Oxford University Press 2021). Amanda and Charis report on viewing a screening of the anti-CRT documentary, "Whose Children Are They?" and the rest of the thought criminals have many thoughts.
14 Apr 2022
Ep. 12 - Amanda Lewis on How Schools Segregate Today
Amanda Lewis, Distinguished Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, discusses her book Despite the Best Intentions: Why Racial Inequality Persists in Good Schools (with John Diamond, 2015) and the thought criminals discuss the stalled censorship laws in Ohio.
1 Apr 2022
Ep. 11 - Joe Feagin on the White Racial Frame
Prof. Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University, author of more than 70 books including The White Racial Frame (2010), talks with us about his concept of the White Racial Frame and how it explains structural racism of the past and present.
21 Mar 2022
Ep. 10 - Mike Cole, Emeritus Prof. in Education and Equality at Bishop Grosseteste University (UK) talks about his book, New Developments in Critical Race Theory (2017).
Ep. 10 - Mike Cole, Emeritus Prof. in Education and Equality at Bishop Grosseteste University (UK) talks about his book, New Developments in Critical Race Theory (2017). The Thought Outlaws discuss Trump's call for his supporters to "lay down their lives" to fight CRT.
9 Mar 2022
Ep. 9: Tanya Hernandez discusses her book, Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination
Tanya Hernandez, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University, discusses her book, Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination (NYU 2018).
3 Mar 2022
Ep. 8: Robert A. Williams discusses his classic book, The American Indian in Western Legal Thought.
Ep. 8: Robert A. Williams discusses his classic book, The American Indian in Western Legal Thought. The Thought Criminals discuss Ohio's HB 327 that threatens university instructors with loss of tenure for teaching "divisive concepts."
24 Feb 2022
Ep. 7 - Special Edition: Interview with the SC legislator who want to ban teaching that "race is a social construction."
In this special edition of Real CRT, Prof. Messer-Kruse interviews Representative Linda Bennett, who represents Charleston in the South Carolina Assembly and whose bill, H. 4605, proposes to prohibit the teaching that "race or sex are social constructions." Then the Real CRT crew listen to clips from a hearing on the bill and offer their insights into what it all means.
16 Feb 2022
Episode 6: The Whiteness of Organizations with Victor Ray
Victor Ray, F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Iowa, joins the class to discuss his work on racism and organizational theory. The thought criminals discuss new anti-CRT laws that attempt to ban the concept that "race is a social construction."
9 Feb 2022
Episode 5: Prof. Robert S. Chang discusses CRT, the 14th Amendment, and the battle to save the Mexican American Studies Program in Tucson, Arizona.
Robert S. Chang, Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at the Seattle University School of Law joins the Critical Race Theory class to discuss CRT and his work as co-counsel in the fight to save the Mexican American Studies Program that Republicans attempted to ban in 2011.
31 Jan 2022
Episode 4: CRT and Whiteness with Charles Gallagher
Charles Gallagher, Professor of Sociology at La Salle University, discusses public myths of what CRT is and how white identity politics drives the anti-CRT movement. Also, the thought outlaws discuss new CRT legislation written in laughable haste.
25 Jan 2022
CRT and Meritocracy with Randall Kennedy
Our panel of thought outlaws discuss Virginia's anti-CRT legislation that requires schools to teach the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and how these debates actually illustrate some of the key insights of CRT. Then we speak with Harvard Law School's Prof. Randall Kennedy, about his early criticisms of CRT in his 1989 article "Racial Critiques of Legal Academia."
18 Jan 2022
Real CRT with David Stovall
Our Real CRT panel reviews the anti-CRT news of the week and then Dr. David Stovall, professor of Black Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, visits our Critical Race Theory class to discuss his book, Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption (SUNY 2016).
9 Jan 2022
Introducing Real CRT
This is Real CRT, the podcast of ETHN 6800 Critical Race Theory at Bowling Green State University. Our mission is to dispel much of the mystery and misinformation about what Critical Race Theory actually is by letting anyone listen in to our discussions with some of the most prominent and important founders, scholars, and critics of CRT. Today we introduce our podcast and our panel of hosts for the coming semester.
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