Cuts & Biases

Cuts & Biases

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Cuts & Biases episodes

  • Part 3: Breaking the White Gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird

    A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught to generations of people in high school.

    Topics: The racist Atticus in Go Set a Watchman. The novel’s position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era. Playground memories of a Black Canadian girl in 1950’s Montreal.

    Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/

    Time Stamps

    (00:00) introduction

    (00:45) Interview Alisha

    (5:00) Recap of Part 2, mob scene

    (7:00) Alisha again

    (7:50) book - Go Set a Watchman

    (11:15) Interview Rachel

    (16:15) New Yorker article

    (20:03) book - White Fragility

    (24:30) book -Deep South

    (26:31) Alisha again

    (28:41) Alisha again

    (30:38) book - The Hate U Give

    (32:55) Interview Gilbert

    (39:20) book, Maya Angelou

    (40:00) book, A Lesson Before Dying

    (40:55) Interview Jessica

    (48:15) Alisha again

    (50:18) Interview Jessica

    (59:00) Interview Jessica

    1 hr 4 min
  • Part 2: Breaking the white gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird

    • A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught in high school to generations of people.

    • Montreal's Black community in the depression era and Canadian racism in the 1930s-1950s.
      • Interview: The daughter of a Black Canadian artist who in 1933 was about the same age as Jem in the book.

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Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/


        38 min
      • Part 2 Trailer: Breaking the White Gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird

        Part 2 is about the novel To Kill a Mockingbird's position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era. And about a Black Canadian girl’s experience growing up in 1960s Montreal

        • Show notes: https://heyshai.com/rain-out-bias-podcast-to-kill-a-mockingbird
        • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cuts.and.biases/
          • 6 min
        • Part 1: Breaking the white gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird

          This series is about:

          • how Shai, a brown woman, broke through being taught it from the white perspective and sought out a Black one.

          • the novel’s position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era.

          • a Black Canadian girl’s experience growing up in 1960s Montreal

            • Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/

            22 min
          • Part 5. Nice! It's a Complicated Word

            The N-word at school. Weaponizing niceness. "Respectable racism" in Canada in the post 9/11 era. The confidence to have race conversations. A anti-racism workshop for creative people.

            Timestamps

            (:20) Nice and ignorant

            (4:14) Stereotyping

            (5:15) High school social justice class

            (14:30) N-word advice

            (15:00) James Baldwin

            (16:00) San Francisco Karen

            (19:45) Xenophobia

            (21:15) Post 9/11 era

            (25:45) Book, See No Stranger

            (29:30) Antiracism workshop

            (31:30) Curly hair microaggression

            (32:20) The nicest guys

            (36:30) Retro rock haircuts

            (39:10) Antiracism workshop

            42 min
          • Part 3. Nice! It's a Complicated Word

            Are you nice or not nice? Nice & kind explained by a guest (Rachel). This show is a mini class to prep for part 4 —and what to do when someone quotes the N-word.  The show that was supposed to be part 3 will be part 4. 

            21 min

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          Researched stories about implicit racial biases and its affects on creativity. Hosted by a brown Canadian woman. Racialized people get information to apply to their own life. White allies get a better…