Leadership for Society: Race and Power
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThrough conversations with a diverse array of leaders, Senior Associate Dean Brian Lowery explores the role of race in society, how race interacts with structures of power, and how systemic racism manifests itself in institutions and in our daily lives. These candid and honest conversations show how future leaders' decisions might lead to different outcomes for different people, based on race.
This podcast is part of Stanford Graduate School of Business' Leadership for Society series.
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Episodes
“Books, Articles, and Documentaries Will Help Us Understand This Country’s Divide.”
February 05, 2021 18:30 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBStories tell us who we are and help us understand others. They also suggest who we can be, if we overcome the ongoing divides in this country. In this podcast episode, Professor Brian Lowery sits down with American journalist and publishing executive Dana Canedy, dubbed by the New York Times as “one of the most powerful Black women in the literary world” who is “poised to alter the culture and the divisions she leads and shape the landscape.” In this conversation, Lowery and Canedy...
“White Americans Need to Understand That Their Interests Coincide with Black People’s Interests”
January 21, 2021 18:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBIn a conversation with Professor Brian Lowery, Dr. Spencer Crew, professor of history and art history at George Mason University joins Dr. Clayborne Carson, professor emeritus of history at Stanford and the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, to discuss the role history plays in our identity as a country. Historical statues and monuments, the men say, tell very different narratives depending on who gets to tell the story. “Many statues were cr...
“Never Mistake Presence for Power”
January 05, 2021 22:30 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBEconomic and social inequalities between white and Black people gained global attention again this year. In this podcast episode, Rashad Robinson, president of Color Of Change — the largest online racial justice organization driven by more than 7.2 million members — spoke on the global racial reckoning of 2020 and how his nonprofit is working to fix the systems and structures that have hurt, harmed, and held the Black community back. In a conversation with Professor Brian Lowery, R...
“You Can’t Have Capitalism Without Capital"
November 25, 2020 18:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBIn a country where policies blocking Black people from obtaining mortgages, land, and capital have created an immense wealth gap between Black and white Americans that persists to this day, inequality is a threat to our democracy, says Mehrsa Baradaran, professor of law and associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at University of California, Irvine, and the author of How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. In this conversat...
"We Don't Know Each Other Anymore in This Country"
November 12, 2020 21:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBJust a week before a divisive presidential election, Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, and a candidate in the Democratic primaries for the 2020 presidential election, and Jeff Flake, the Republican former U.S. Senator from Arizona and former member of the House of Representatives, shared their insights on the state of the American government as it struggles to maintain its institutions in the face of deep racial inequities. In a rare across-the-aisle conversation...
“The State of the Nation Is Dependent on Getting Equity Right”
October 29, 2020 19:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBAs the U.S. gets closer to becoming a nation where the majority of its citizens are people of color, Angela Glover Blackwell, the founder in residence of PolicyLink, is focused on innovating and improving public policy to ensure opportunity for all low-income people and communities of color. In this wide-ranging pre-election discussion, she explains the potential impact of California ballot measures; the need for radical solutions in employment, law enforcement, and education; and...
"We Need to Stop TipToeing Around Race"
October 15, 2020 17:50 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBIn the midst of a powerful social justice movement, Quita Highsmith, VP and Chief Diversity Officer at Genentech, and Simone Hill, MBA/MA ’14, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) strategist at Omidyar Network, work to steer their organizations toward a new definition of corporate responsibility and leadership. Moving the needle in the direction of racial equity, they say, will require a long-term investment, a willingness to “stop tiptoeing” around issues of race, and an updated...