Jhumpa Bhattacharya of the Insight Center For Community Economic Development (a non-profit focused on building economic inclusion and racial equity for people of color, women, immigrants, and marginalized families in the US) is a national expert on racial wealth inequality and gender issues. Ms. Bhattacharya and the Insight Center have doubled down on dismantling racist, sexist systems by changing the narratives of power, disparity, and history that support them. Centering Blackness is a framework that strikes at, what they say, is the root cause of a multitude of societal ills. On this episode, Ms. Bhattacharya talks with me about the Centering Blackness framework, patriarchal status quo, the power of narrative, and how Asian Americans experience white supremacy. Such serious topics, yet somehow the episode is filled with audio distorting laughter. Weird…

Explore topics in this episode:

 Insight Center

Centering Blackness: The Path to Economic Liberation for All

American Rescue Plan Fact Sheet

The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu

The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad

Throughline: The Real Black Panthers

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