2.5 Racial Literacy on Campus with Jessie Daniels

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

What do you do when you're having a bad day?What does it mean to disrupt white supremacy and how can we do that effectively within higher ed?Ways of advancing racial literacy on campus.Disrupting white supremacy happens over generations. How white supremacy operates in admissions in hiring through conversations about excellence, standards, culture fit, and quality. The relationship between free speech and hate speech.The importance of thinking of speech in terms of harm and asking: who is being harmed by the kind of speech w're inviting onto our campuses?The importance of racial literacy within EDI committees on campus and moving beyond bias and implicit bias. The ways in which white women and men can step back and open up spaces for people of color to take the lead at our institutions. Far right attacks of faculty as attacks on public higher education and democracy. The shift in higher ed from a public good to a commodity. The challenge of being a public scholar and a scholar activist at a time when institutions are ill-prepared to protect faculty from threats and attacks. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

Jessie DanielsHunter College, Sociology DepartmentHarvard's Berkman Klein CenterPublic Scholar AcademyCrazy by Gnarls BarkleyJessie Daniel AmesAssociation of Southern Women for the Prevention of LynchingEbony and Ivory by Craig WilderTricia MatthewWritten/Unwritten by Patricia MatthewRacist Culture by David Theo GoldbergTressie McMillan Cottom on higher ed

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia