Champagne Sharks

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Introduction Song:

"When I'm Gone" by The Jones Girls

Discussed in the episode:

* Gary Owen Wife Kenya Duke Calls Michael Blackson The N Word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MULaK62MNTU

* Chyna Fox commentary on Black men and Stephon Clark aka; the bedwench perspective…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LByEY4RpPY0

* MTO exposes Chyna as a bedwench https://mtonews.com/stephon-clarkebed-wench-caught

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Mentioned in the episode:

* Update on whether Devonte Hart was intentional murder-suicide: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hart-family-crash-intentional-report-20180401-story.html

* "Allison Williams Reveals What White People Ask Her About Get Out" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE0tMvL-aM

* Story describing how the Hart parents made Devonte and his siblings dance on camera in their underwear to put on social media: http://www.crimeonline.com/2018/03/30/devonte-hart-and-siblings-appeared-in-unusual-youtube-videos-before-fatal-suv-plunge-that-may-have-killed-the-entire-family/

* Stories that updated the Devonte Hart abuse history that came out after we recorded this episode: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/devonte_hart_family_crash_dece.html; https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/devonte_harts_biological_mom_t.html; http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/04/other_new_developments_in_the.html

* 3 disturbing tweets by Tariq Nasheed about Devonte Hart https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979542114974425088; https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979564656367779840; https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/979566402729209856

* Open Secret Documentary, available free online: https://vimeo.com/142444429

* Jerry Sandusky's Black victims: http://blackyouthproject.com/jerry-sandusky-penn-state-black-victims/

* Ohio teacher molested her black foster son a...

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Introduction Song:

Fxdslxsh - Oceans

Discussed in the episode:

Death Of Stephon Clark:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article208051604.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/us/stephon-clark-independent-autopsy.html

Stephon Clark’s Tweets anti black women:

https://twitter.com/JReid2014/status/979757725029752833

Twitter reactions:

https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/982306740568932352

https://twitter.com/pit_sen/status/980055392624562176

https://twitter.com/rhea_ban/status/979769635842256898

https://twitter.com/_sageariel/status/979732983686029312

https://twitter.com/ProBlkThought/status/980088972117409792

The nurse who got fired for racist Stephon Clark Facebook posts:

https://nypost.com/2018/03/31/nurse-sacked-for-saying-stephon-clark-deserved-to-be-killed-by-cops/

Fargo - A Rich Man Who Gave Everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9TOWIc_KLU

Scandal - The Virus of White Supremacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TASvOZXyE6k

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Dr. Tommy Curry (http://www.twitter.com/DrTJC) rejoins us for a two-part episode to discuss recent findings about Black men in studies that have made the news from both the Equality of Opportunity Project (covered in the NY Times) and the Brookings Institute. We also offer Dr. Curry the opportunity to respond to criticisms about him and his work that we've heard over the past year.

Mentioned in the episode:

* The Brookings Institute's study "The inheritance of black poverty: It’s all about the men" https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-inheritance-of-black-poverty-its-all-about-the-men/

* My tweet and thread showing the various ways Brookings tweeted the study before settling on the inflammatory clickbait tweet that finally got the attention: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/978638533345849345

* Article by Huffington Post summarizing the Princeton study by David Pedulla, "Unmaking Black Gay Privilege": https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-fitzgerald-gates-phd/unmasking-black-gay-privilege_b_6978224.html. A response to the study, "Black gay privilege is a ridiculous notion" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/27/black-gay-privilege-is-a-ridiculous-notion. Princeton's summary of the study: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2014/05/15/negative-stereotypes-can-cancel-each-other-out-resumes; Pedulla's study in full https://www.princeton.edu/csso/working-papers/WP7-Pedulla.pdf

* The Root discussing Stephon Clark's anti-Black Woman tweets: https://www.theroot.com/judge-of-characters-the-hatred-of-black-women-1824991606; Essence discussing the same tweets, "It's Time To Talk About Stephon Clark's Anti-Black Women Tweets: Do Victims Have To Be Perfect To Garner Our Empathy?" https://www.essence.

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This is part one of two-part episode. We discuss a recent Donald Glover interview, the ways in which "good white people" are adept at throwing racist shade in a very gaslighting, subtle way and how Blavity Blacks love and fetishize the token black person experience.

Mentioned in this episode:

Music is "If This Ain't Love" by Nicole Willis and the Investigators

Donald Glover New Yorker Article by Tad Friend: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you

My thread on the New Yorker Donald Glover article: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/974739510570504192

The Jodie Landon Daria video in a Buzzfeed tweet: https://twitter.com/AM2DM/status/970368961765302272

"Is Jodie Landon The Most Important TV Character Of The 90s?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqJ9XNw07-0

Ishmael Reed's discussions on The Wire: "Should Harvard Teach A Course On The Wire?" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/harvard-wire-course_n_746896.html; "No, it relies on clichés about blacks and drugs" http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/30/no_it_relies_on_clichs_about_blacks_and_drugs/; "Faking the Hood" https://www.counterpunch.org/2008/03/15/faking-the-hood/;

"This Isn't The First Time Network TV Discovered Black People" by Gene Demby https://www.npr.

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Dr. Tommy Curry (http://www.twitter.com/DrTJC) rejoins us for a two-part episode to discuss recent findings about Black men in studies that have made the news from both the Equality of Opportunity Project (covered in the NY Times) and the Brookings Institute. We also offer Dr. Curry the opportunity to respond to criticisms about him and his work that we've heard over the past year.

Mentioned in the episode:

* "Killing Boogeymen: Phallicism and the Misandric Mischaracterizations of Black Males in Theory" by Tommy J. Curry http://lawschoolmoodle.org/racism.org/images/pdf/Killing-Boogeymen.pdf

* "Gender and Race Discrimination: The Interactive Nature of Disadvantage" by Jim Sidanius http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.452.6288&rep=rep1&type=pdf

* "Racial Politics Complicated: The Work of Gendered Race Cues in American Politics" by Corrine M. McConnaughy and Ismail K. Whit https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6391/925becfa1e1f0a76f331ba0e52d3ab51b0e3.pdf 

* The NY Times article summarizing the Raj Chetty study: "Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys" by Emily Badger, Claire Cain Miller, Adam Pearce and Kevin Quealy https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html

* Chetty study non-technical summary: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_summary.pdf and the full paper: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_paper.pdf

* The Brookings Institute's study "The inheritance of black poverty: It’s all about the men" https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-inheritance-of-black-poverty-its-all-about-the-men/

* "Thank a Black Feminist" by Kimberly Foster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdjpY9gm_GA

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This is part one of two-part episode. We discuss a recent Donald Glover interview, the ways in which "good white people" are adept at throwing racist shade in a very gaslighting, subtle way and how Blavity Blacks love and fetishize the token black person experience.

Mentioned in this episode:

* Music is "WW III" by Ruff Ryders

* The scene from "Don't Be a Menace" we discuss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gP9GX2udI

* Donald Glover New Yorker Article by Tad Friend: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you

* The Jodie Landon Daria video in a Buzzfeed tweet: https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/968892505080016896

* "James Davis - Token Black Friend" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBaGQQKkt7I

* "Not Another Teen Movie - Token Black Guy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWhhPWyWCv0

* "The Token Black Guy and His White Friend" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esc8gPYYIn8

* "Un-Token" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNfR9B4-FU

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Mentioned in the episode:

* An example of the original framing of the photo: https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/29/living/ferguson-protest-hug/index.html

* Various stories about how Devonte's famous photo hugging the cop was staged: "The Famous “Ferguson Hug” Photo Was Reportedly Staged" http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/12/was-the-ferguson-protest-hug-photo-staged; "The touching hug photo from Ferguson protests is a blatant lie" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/02/hug-photographs-ferguson-protests-lie; "

* Coverage from a website: "Devonte Hart's family remembered as loving, unconventional; neighbors, court records suggest strains" http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/03/family_in_northern_california.html

* "Freaky Friday" video by Lil' Dicky featuring Chris Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZla1ttZHaw

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Wendi Muse is a PhD Candidate in History at New York University. Her research analyzes Lusophone Africans' impact on the Brazilian left through intellectual and political exchange during the Cold War. In addition to her doctoral work, Wendi holds an MA in Latin American Studies and has conducted research regarding Afro-Brazilian women’s political organizing throughout the 20th century. Wendi is presently a 2017-2018 New York Public Humanities Fellow and a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to support her research in Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique. Wendi is the creator of the hashtag #LeftPOC and the Left POCket Project, which uses digital media to make the histories of leftists of color more easily accessible to the public. Her podcast can be found at https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc

Twitter: @MuseWendi & @LeftPOC

Race & Racism in Brazil

Articles:

On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco (written by Wendi & several professors who work on Brazil)

http://www.theblackscholar.org/on-the-imperative-of-transnational-solidarity-a-u-s-black-feminist-statement-on-the-assassination-of-marielle-franco/

“Afro-Brazilian Religions Struggle Against Evangelical Hostility”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/afro-brazilian-religions-struggle-against-evangelical-hostility/2015/02/05...

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We discuss the endless and divisive gender wars that happen on Twitter between the blue check Black Twitter accounts and the

Mentioned in the episode:

* Opening speech is from Malcolm X's "Message to the Grassroots" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku2JzolPt50

* The NY Times article we discuss about how black boys and men are being disproportionately economically affected by racism and sexism, "Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys by Emily Badger, Claire Cain Miller, Adam Pearce and Kevin Quealy https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html

* "Forget Killmonger — Wakanda’s women are ‘Black Panther’s’ true revolutionaries" by Karen Attiah https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/03/01/forget-the-abusive-killmonger-wakandas-women-are-black-panthers-true-black-liberators/