This is the podcast of ETHN 6800 Critical Race Theory at Bowling Green State University. Our mission is to dispel much of the mystery and misinformation about what Critical Race Theory actually is by letting anyone listen in to our discussions with some of the most prominent and important founders, scholars, and critics of CRT. Today we introduce our podcast and our panel of hosts for the coming semester.
Episode 2: Real CRT with David Stovall
Our Real CRT panel reviews the anti-CRT news of the week and then Dr. David Stovall, professor of Black Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, visits our Critical Race Theory class to discuss his book, Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption (SUNY 2016).
Episode 3: CRT and Meritocracy with Randall Kennedy
Our panel of thought outlaws discuss Virginia’s anti-CRT legislation that requires schools to teach the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and how these debates actually illustrate some of the key insights of CRT. Then we speak with Harvard Law School’s Prof. Randall Kennedy, about his early criticisms of CRT in his 1989 article “Racial Critiques of Legal Academia.”
Episode 4: CRT and Whiteness with Charles Gallagher
Charles Gallagher discusses public myths of what CRT is and how white identity politics drives the anti-CRT movement. The thought outlaws discuss new CRT legislation written in laughable haste.
Episode 5: CRT and the 14th Amendment
Robert S. Chang, Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at the Seattle University School of Law joins the Critical Race Theory class to discuss CRT and his work as co-counsel in the fight to save the Mexican American Studies Program that Republicans attempted to ban in 2011.
Episode 6: The Whiteness of Organizations with Victor Ray
Victor Ray, F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Iowa, joins the class to discuss his work on racism and organizational theory. The thought criminals discuss new anti-CRT laws that attempt to ban the concept that “race is a social construction.”
In this special edition of Real CRT, Prof. Messer-Kruse interviews Representative Linda Bennett, who represents Charleston in the South Carolina Assembly and whose bill, H. 4605, proposes to prohibit the teaching that “race or sex are social constructions.” Then the Real CRT crew listen to clips from a hearing on the bill and offer their insights into what it all means.
Robert A. Williams discusses his classic book, The American Indian in Western Legal Thought. The Thought Criminals discuss Ohio’s HB 327 that threatens university instructors with loss of tenure for teaching “divisive concepts.”
Tanya Hernandez, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University, discusses her book, Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination (NYU 2018).
Episode 11: Joe Feagin discusses the White Racial Frame.
Episode 12: Amanda Lewis on how schools segregate today.
Episode 13: Erin Pineda on her new book, Seeing Like an Activist.
