Episode 1 The mystery of the little Black baby dolls

Welcome to the very first episode of the Structured Visions podcast! In this episode I look at aspects of racial injustice. I share some perspectives from my five-year-old self to show how certain logical structures enabled me to cope when I first noticed racial inequality. I talk more about what it means to understand racism, or any other form of social injustice, as structured. I invite listeners to start imagining new structures.

If we can start noticing social structures that lead to social injustice or are a result of social injustice, then we are also in a position to identify alternatives.

And I put forward this idea as a teaser:

The way we structure our worlds has its mirror in the grammatical structure of how we speak.

Tune in to the next episode to hear more about grammar and the structure of social worlds.

In this episode I mention Drs Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll test and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva‘s chapter in the book White Out, edited by Ashley W. Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.