Latest Ethnic studies Podcast Episodes
Labor Workshop
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - April 22, 2019 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas. These workshops provide time and space to discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. This episode is about our most recent workshop. We defined different types of labor and discussed their signific...
Thunder in my Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - April 16, 2019 23:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis episode is focused on Patricia Monture-Angus' book: Thunder in My Soul, A Mohawk Woman Speaks. In Thunder in My Soul, A Mohawk Woman Speaks, Monture-Angus shares deeply personal experiences as a woman, law student and professor living in colonial Canada. She states: "This is a prayer for ...
This Bridge Called My Back
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - March 25, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis episode is focused on an amazing anthology of creative work by women of color, edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga. Anzaldúa and Moraga created a space for women of color to share their experiences and stories. Each author labored to bring her story to the page and to make her li...
Intersectionality
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - March 18, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIntersectionality is a term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989. It has since been used and appropriated in many different circles, notably by white women. Now, 30 years later, a new wave of woman of color feminists seek to push back on the term, redefine the term, defend the term, and look beyo...
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - March 11, 2019 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLike we mentioned last week, our teacher, Kimberly, created a multi-media module for us where we read a book and watched two connecting movies. Today we discuss the book we read. (Check out last week's episode for our discussion of Daughters of the Dust and Lemonade). This book was paired with t...
Daughters of the Dust & Lemonade
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - March 04, 2019 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we discuss two wonderful black feminist movies! The first one we talk about is Daughters of the Dust directed by Julie Dash. Daughters of the Dust is set in 1902 and follows a family as they prepare to leave the Sea Islands, on the coast of Georgia, to move to the mainland. The second movi...
Podcast Update: We're Busy!
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - February 25, 2019 08:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHello podcast listeners! We wanted to send a quick update since there will not be a new episode out today. Because of our many snow days, we are finding ourselves busy with curriculum changes, grading, etc. So instead of a full podcast, we are giving you another text recommendation. Our recomme...
Kinship Workshop
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - February 18, 2019 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe are sharing workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. Last week, we held a workshop where we explored the nuances of kinsh...
Podcast Update: Snowed In!
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - February 11, 2019 08:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHello podcast listeners! We wanted to send a quick update since there will not be a new episode out today. A rare occurrence has happened in the greater Seattle area: we are snowed in! We thought that since we are snowed in at our respective houses, we'd give you a text recommendation for you to...
Smith and Christian & Theory
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - February 04, 2019 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we will discuss two wonderful and foundational black feminist texts by Barbara Smith and by Barbara Christian. Both of these women have put a tremendous amount of labor into creating theory from black lived experiences. In these two texts we see them struggle with big questions like: "whos...
A Journey Through Difficult Knowledge
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - January 28, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe are so excited to be joined on the podcast by our friend and coworker James who is going to walk us through his experience taking classes from Kimberly and his journey with this material as a white male. We reference bell hooks' wonderful text All About Love. Questions to consider after lis...
Spillers & Language
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - January 21, 2019 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we will discuss the introduction to Hortense Spillers' article "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book". Spillers created this 1987 text to critique current day academic discourse. She proposes that we need new language to describe the experiences of black females, like hersel...
Hartman & Scenes of Subjection
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - January 14, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we will discuss the introduction to Saidiya Hartman's book Scenes of Subjection. Hartman creates this text to dive into her embodied generational trauma as a black woman. She examines the perpetual display of violence towards black bodies and the impact those images have on white people's ...
Intersectionality Workshop
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - January 07, 2019 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe are going to share a workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. Three weeks ago, we held a workshop where we explored the te...
Tuck and Yang & Decolonization
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - December 31, 2018 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we will discuss Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's amazing article Decolonization is not a metaphor. In this episode we will think about indigenous studies and the term "decolonization". We will discuss how decolonization is layered, complex, and unsettling for people to talk about. In the artic...
Trauma Informed Pedagogy Workshop
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - December 24, 2018 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe are going to share a workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. Two weeks ago, we held a workshop where we explored trauma,...
Lowe & Education
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - December 17, 2018 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we will continue discussing Lisa Lowe's amazing text Intimacies of Four Continents. This episode is part two in a two-part series on Lowe. In this episode we will think about the role education plays in the British imperialist strategy. Questions to consider: What is the role of education...
Reading Through Lenses Workshop
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - December 10, 2018 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe are so excited to be joined on the podcast by our friend and coworker Ashley who is going to walk us through a lesson she did with some other faculty members for our 8th grade humanities class. In her workshop, Ashley uses To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Norman Rockwell paintings, and co...
Lowe & The Intimacies of Four Continents
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - December 04, 2018 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe are coming back after a brief hiatus due to crazy schedules, Thanksgiving break, and illness. Thank you for being patient with us! Today we will be discussing Lisa Lowe's amazing text Intimacies of Four Continents. This episode is part one in a two-part series on Lowe. In this episode we wil...
White Fragility Workshop
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - November 01, 2018 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe are so excited to be joined on the podcast by our friend and coworker AJ who is going to walk us through his workshop on white fragility. AJ uses Dr. Robin DiAngelo's text White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism and So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Olu...
Embodied Epistemology & Lived Experience Workshop
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - October 29, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe held a faculty workshop where we explored the text "Venus in Two Acts" by Saidiya Hartman and paired it with Kindred by Octavia Butler in order to understand embodied epistemology and lived experience. We also discuss Cartesian Dualism and how to create a trauma informed classroom. Questions ...
Identity & Identification Workshop
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - October 10, 2018 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis episode is a little different. Instead of discussing theory and bringing ideas into the classroom, we are going to share a workshop that we did at our school for our faculty and staff. We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas where we discuss, share, and reflect upon o...
McClintock & Unstable Categories
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - October 05, 2018 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe discuss ideas from chapter one, "Empire of the Home", from Anne McClintock's text Imperial Leather. We focus on the unstable categories of time, race, and gender. Visit our blog, www.theorymeetspracticepod.blogspot.com for the link to the video we refer to in the podcast. Support the show (h...
Federici & Witch Hunts
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - September 29, 2018 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe discuss Sylvia Federici's definitions of "witch", "magic", and "witch hunts" in the context of the 16th and 17th century European witch hunts. We focus on the concept of power and voices. Questions to consider: who has power and why? How do they use that power? Whose voices are missing? How c...
Federici & Enclosures
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - September 25, 2018 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWelcome to the third episode of the podcast! This episode is called Federici & Enclosures. First we will discuss how Federici analyzes how social, financial, and political enclosures and how the elimination of "the commons" damages the creative power of women. Then we will share ideas for how to...
Federici & Cartesian Dualism
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - September 14, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsFirst we will discuss how Federici analyzes Cartesian dualism and embodied epistemology in the context of her book, and then we will share ideas for how to bring these ideas into our classroom through pedagogical strategies. We will ask you 3 questions to consider as you think about these concept...
Federici & Resistance
Theory Meets Practice: A Podcast for Teachers - September 13, 2018 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe will be discussing a text called Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici. This is a very complicated text that took Federici over 30 years to complete! We are going to split the text up into 4 themes, and we will cover one theme per episode. For this first episode, we will discuss how Federic...
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