We need to talk about whiteness podcast

About We need to talk about whiteness podcast

Hosted by Dr Myriam Francois, the "We Need To Talk About Whiteness Podcast" aims to explore the meaning of 'whiteness' in conversations around race and racism - what is whiteness? and does it matter? Each week, I'm joined by a new guest offering up their insights on whiteness, from comedy to film, sex and science. Join us!

Publisher

Dr Myriam Francois

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Oct 2019

Latest episode

4 Sept 2023

Latest episodes

74 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Sept 2023

   We Need To Talk About Whiteness - with Sheela Banerjee

   Ep 73: What's in a name? Journalist, academic and ex-TV producer Sheela Banerjee's discusses names and what they signify to society - in her new book, she takes us from the fight against racism in Britain, from Jamaica in the 60s to pre-Revolutionary Russia, each time exploring how a name contains centuries of history and acts as a portal to other worlds. So what IS in a name...? and what do we lose when we change them...

2. 

   14 Aug 2023

   We Need To Talk About Whiteness - with Carmen Thompson

   Ep72: Whiteness and its making - Dr. Carmen Thompson is a historian and author, and a highly sought out expert on Race and Whiteness in America whose scholarship has been quoted in historic court judgements in the US. She joins me to discuss her new book "The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth- Century Virginia".

3. 

   26 Jul 2023

   We Ned To Talk About Whiteness - with Wesley Lowery

   Ep 71: Whiteness and the whitelash - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and author of a new book “American Whitelash”, Wesley Lowery joins Myriam Francois to talk the whitelash, covering racist politics and what the history of white supremacy tells us about our current juncture.

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