In this episode we sit down with Professor Lori Latrice Martin, an associate dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University, to discuss  her article “Black Out: Backlash and Betrayal in the Academy and Beyond,” which examines what Professor Martin describes as the "predictability of efforts to silence conversations and actions related to combating anti-Blackness in America and the continued use of Black deaths to further the social, economic, and political progress of non-Black groups in the academy and beyond" in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. You can find the article in the most recent edition of AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom; the entire issue is devoted to the intersection of disinformation and academic freedom. 

Links:

• "Black Out: Backlash and Betrayal in the Academy and Beyond,"  Lori Latrice Martin, Journal of Academic Freedom, Volume 13, 2022
• "Racial Realism," Derek Bell, Connecticut Law Review, 1992
• Journal of Academic Freedom, Volume 13, 2022

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