Podcasts by Race in America (Audio)
From the civil rights movement to the rise of American multiculturalism, race continues to play a role in shaping our society. Explore this collection from the University of California, which seeks to broaden our understanding of race issues in America from diverse perspectives.
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Sabhanaz Diya Featured Student Speaker at the Goldman School of Public Policy Board of Advisors Dinner March 2017 from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.520962
Sabhanaz Diya, a second year student at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, describes how her education is helping her efforts to empower women and young people in Bangladesh throug...
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Crime and Criminal Adjudication in the Latinx Context from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.486040
This panel explores the relevance of race, citizenship, immigration status, and community context in explaining lethal violence and criminal case outcomes, both currently and historically. Drawing ...
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Prison Abolition and a Mule with Paul Butler from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.454978
By virtually any measure, prisons have not worked. They are sites of cruelty, dehumanization, and violence, as well as subordination by race, class, and gender. Prisons traumatize virtually all who...
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Aimee Allison from She The People - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.417712
Aimee Allison is founder and president of She the People, a national network elevating the voice and power of women of color. She brings together voters, organizers, and elected leaders in a moveme...
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A Path Forward: Empowering People Transforming Cultures from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.411428
This conversation with leading scholars and bestselling authors Robin DiAngelo ("White Fragility") and Ibram X. Kendi ("How to Be An Anti-Racist") is facilitated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalis...
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How Democratic is the US Constitution? - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.401125
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” As look at the history of American democracy, we begin with the nation’s founding contradiction: the dispossession of Nativ...
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Social Movements and Democracy - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.383413
This lecture opens with the breaking news of Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and the super spreader event that broke out in the White House last week. From there we turn to a detailed discussion of soci...
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Culture and Social Movements - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.377974
This lecture looks at social movements and culture in history through three theoretical models of social, political and historical change: Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism as expressed ...
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Exploring Racial Resentment and Politics from 2023-12-12T20:59:27.327416
“I’m not a racist, but…” In their new book, Racial Resentment in the Political Mind (University of Chicago Press), Goldman School Dean David C. Wilson and Notre Dame Professor of Political Science ...
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Challenging Hate: How to Stop Anti-AAPI Violence and Bias from 2023-09-18T13:00
Sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities across the country have been subjected to increased hate incidents, including verbal harassment, civil right...
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Asian American Activism: Drawing on History Inspiring the Future from 2023-09-13T13:00
Asian/Pacific Islander American communities have a long history of activism in the United States, particularly in response to anti-Asian racism and exclusion. In their struggle for equality and lib...
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Beyond Affirmative Action: Ensuring Equity in Uncertain Times from 2023-06-19T13:00
How can colleges and universities ensure faculty and students reflect the diversity of the U.S. as courts and legislatures dismantle affirmation action? In this program, Stella M. Flores, Ph.D., a...
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A New Language of Justice: Policing Race and Identity Traps in the Era of Trump - DeWitt Lecture from 2022-05-04T04:20:15.672829
Phillip Atiba Goff, Co-Founder and President, Center for Policing Equity, is a psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States. He is an expert in...
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Anti-Racism Initiative: Fostering Institutional Change Following the Tragic Murder of George Floyd from 2022-01-12T13:00
UCSF examines institutional racism following the death of George Floyd and explores what's needed to foster change. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicin...
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In The Arena with David Gray and Jonathan Stein from 2021-11-30T04:56:03.026480
David Gray, appointed chief of staff to the mayor of Richmond, Calif, when he was 27, talks about the creative approaches he and his colleagues are taking to address the challenges facing this dive...
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Aging in Marginalized Communities from 2021-11-12T13:00
María Marquine, PhD, shares research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults age 50+, noting the differential impact by race/ethnicity in the US. Lauren Brown, PhD, discusses the unique st...
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In The Arena with Megan E. Garcia and Jonathan Stein from 2021-11-12T02:20:32.109544
Megan E. Garcia, a national and cyber security analyst who is now a Senior Fellow and Director at New America California, talks with civil rights attorney and fellow alum Jonathan Stein about engag...
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History of Racism and Health: The UCSF Repair Project on REParations and Anti-Institutional Racism from 2021-11-10T13:00
The UCSF Repair Project recognizes that long-standing racial inequities in health, health care institutions and scholarship are a result of structural violence and systemic racism. The project seek...
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Anti-Racism and Building an Inclusive Culture from 2021-10-11T13:00
The race equity movement has left us with greater awareness of the urgent need for changes in the way we interact and run our businesses and institutions. This discussion features a frank discussio...
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Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom on Campus: Why It Matters and How It's Being Threatened from 2021-10-07T01:55:59.743858
Is free speech threatened on college campuses? One of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars explores the the notion of “hateful” or “hurtful” speech and their relation to the First Amendment...
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Assemblymember Shirley Weber: Keynote Address at the 2016 Commencement of the Goldman School of Public Policy UC Berkeley from 2021-05-05T01:37:39.962235
California State Assemblymember Shirley Weber gives an inspirational address to the 2016 graduates of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School ...
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Structural Racism and Environmental Justice in a World of Pandemics from 2021-04-30T13:00
Reflecting on the devastating, disparate impacts of the COVID pandemic on communities of color, this panel examines the role of structural racism in health outcomes and the systemic changes necessa...
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COVID-19 Crisis the Social Safety Net and Who is Being Left Behind - Hilary Hoynes from 2020-11-19T13:00
Economist Hilary Hoynes explores her research on the COVID-19 crisis. She discusses the effects on low wage workers and the tripling of food insecurity in children. She also looks at the consequenc...
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Democracy in America Now - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2020-11-16T13:00
Today’s lecture takes a look ahead at the leading challenges and opportunities facing American democracy in this moment. We begin with a discussion of Trump’s refusal to admit defeat in the preside...
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Ian Haney López on Race-Class Praxis - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2020-10-28T13:00
Ian Haney López is is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes on race and racism in the law. His focus for the last decade ha...
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Political Messaging and Strategy - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2020-10-26T13:00
This lecture begins with a discussion of California’s ballot measure Prop 16 which seeks to overturn Prop 209, the 1996 ban on affirmative action in the state. This discussion considers both the hi...
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Chrissie Castro Chairperson of the Los Angeles City and County Native American Indian Commission - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2020-10-12T13:00
Chrissie Castro, Diné and Chicana, is the Chairperson of the Los Angeles City County Native American Indian Commission, and co-led the change to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day in ...
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Rashad Robinson Color Of Change - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2020-09-30T13:00
This lecture features Rashad Robinson, the President of Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. The organization helps people respond effectively to injustice in ...
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Racial Classification and the 2020 Census with Michael Omi - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2020-09-16T13:00
Today we take up the question of racial classification and the 2020 census with professor Michael Omi. Professor Omi is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Asians American and Asian Diaspora Stu...
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Big Ideas: Election 2020: Race Space and Politics from 2020-09-14T13:00
The principle question for this presentation is what is “race” and how does it shape our politics? We begin with an introduction looking at the ongoing western wildfires, its differential impact up...
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The Context of Election 2020 - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas from 2020-08-31T13:00
In our opening public lecture, we will take up the immediate context of the 2020 election to consider what is at stake in COVID-19 and the recent uprisings around Black Lives Matter and racial inju...
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Socio-Economic Equality and Rights - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire from 2020-03-26T13:00
Socio-economic equality and rights have historically been marginalized in the human rights system but remain a front of racial discrimination. Panelists will engage with this history, identify cont...
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Migration - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire from 2020-03-18T13:00
Panelists consider global and national displacement, rights and protection regimes, and the ways that race and political economy drive policy decisions and institutional and normative responses to ...
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Transnational Perspectives on Race and Empire at the Intersection of TWAIL and CRT from 2020-02-25T13:00
Contemporary global and national political crises, many of which threaten the human rights of millions and even the international system itself, bring intosharp relief enduring colonial legacies of...
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Emergencies and Crisis - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire from 2020-02-25T13:00
Emergency law permits states to derogate from globally agreed upon norms of human rights. While some rights cannot be suppressed, states still use emergency law to justify policies that reproduce i...
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America's Imperial Unraveling - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire from 2020-02-25T13:00
The keynote presentation of the Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire Symposium features Aziz Rana whose research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political develop...
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Deep Soul: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World with Waldo Martin from 2020-01-15T13:00
Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles transformed both US and World History. These seminal liberation struggles include the important yet relatively unknown series of early twentieth...
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Racial Equity and the Economic Reality of Workers - Workforce Frontiers Symposium 2019 from 2019-11-26T13:00
Ethnic and racial diversity is a key strength in workforce development as well as moral imperative. How can we better match skills to opportunity? Molly Bashay, state policy analyst for the Nationa...
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Intellectual Journey from Reform to Activism with Paul Butler - Conversations with History from 2019-11-15T13:00
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor Law at Georgetown, for a discussion of the law and blacks. Topics covered include formative experiences incl...
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A Path Forward: Breaking Down Barriers and Building Connections with Youth - Global Empowerment Summit 2019 from 2019-11-14T13:00
A discussion of constructive and effective ways to bring youth, community leaders, and organizations together to overcome divisiveness and polarization and build a stronger, more tolerant, and incl...
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Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties: From The Ancient Law to The Jazz Singer with Charles Musser - Holocaust Living History Workshop from 2019-11-11T13:00
Yale University professor and filmmaker Charles Musser explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of race relations in German and American cinema from the 1920s by examining The Ancient ...
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil with Susan Neiman - Holocaust Living History Workshop from 2019-10-19T13:00
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans...
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The Success of Integrating Schools with Rucker Johnson -- In the Living Room with Henry E. Brady from 2019-04-16T13:00
Brown v. Board of Education was hailed as a landmark decision for civil rights. But decades later, many consider school integration a failure. UC Berkeley professor Rucker C. Johnson's book Childr...
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Capital Punishment: Influence of Race and Ethnicity from 2019-03-27T13:00
This panel focuses on questions surrounding the influence of race and ethnicity on the imposition of capital punishment. The Supreme Court struck down unitary standardless capital punishment statut...
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LatinX Communities Race and the Criminal Justice System: Setting the Context from 2019-03-22T13:00
Panel explores how Latinx communities perceive the criminal justice system and provides a general overview of what we know and don't know about Latinx incarceration. The panel also explores the con...
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Policing Latinx Communities from 2019-03-18T13:00
This panel focuses on questions around policing in Latinx communities in order to shed light on the ways that intersecting legal regimes and policing practices affect those communities. The panel e...
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Black Power Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s from 2019-02-27T13:00
Undermining widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance, Marc Dollinger, Professor of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University, describes a new political consensus, based on identi...
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Police Accountability and Profiling by Proxy with Andrea Headley -- In the Arena with Jonathan Stein -- UC Public Policy Channel from 2019-02-11T13:00
Instances of profiling by proxy, where police are summoned to a situation by a biased caller, have been making headlines and going viral. But, how do we address this issue? Andrea Headley has been ...
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Building Beloved Community: ReConnecting Church and Community in the Midst of Radicalized Chaos - Traci Blackmon - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society from 2018-05-23T13:00
Rev. Traci Blackmon is the Executive Minister of Justice&Local Church Ministries for the United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. A f...
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There Were No African-Americans In My Textbooks - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from 2018-04-13T13:00
Author and legendary athlete Kareem Abdul-Jabbar highlights remarkable African-American contributions to American society. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Humanities][Educ...
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Preparing For Life After Incarceration with Nicholas Alexander -- In the Arena with Jonathan Stein -- UC Public Policy Channel from 2017-06-12T13:00
When inmates are released after serving time, their ordeals are not over. Finding stability and purpose on the outside can be daunting, leading many to end up back in jail or prison. But, as Nich...
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Truth as a Common Good with Robert Reich from 2017-04-24T13:00
Economist Robert Reich, the Clinton-era Labor Secretary and prominent Democratic pundit, gives a rousing talk on how the intersection of politics and economics led to the rise of Donald Trump and d...
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The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today from 2017-04-24T13:00
Nina Jablonski explores the nature and sequence of changes in human skin through prehistory, and the consequences of these changes for the lives of people today. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectu...
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An Evening with Tim Wise: A White Anti-Racist Advocate from 2017-04-17T13:00
Author and anti-racist activist Tim Wise speaks about the importance of being a white ally to communities of color, and how we can all work together to create a healthier community on campuses and ...
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Hidden Figures - Script to Screen from 2017-03-13T13:00
Writer/producer/director Theodore Melfi, actor Kevin Costner and president of Fox 2000 Pictures, Elizabeth Gabler discuss the Oscar-nominated film based on the true story about three brilliant Afri...
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Integrating Immigrants with Mary C. Waters and John Skrentny from 2017-02-13T13:00
Sociologist Mary C. Waters of Harvard University paints a comprehensive and compelling picture of the immigrant experience in the United States. As the chair of a National Academy of Sciences repor...
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Politics Unusual: Will Surging Outsiders Finally Make America Multipartisan? UC Public Policy Channel from 2016-10-25T13:00
The 2016 campaign has led to significant stresses on the leadership and ideology of the two major political parties in the United States. Will these result in a more fragmented political life and t...
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Surreal Politics: How Anxiety About Race Gender and Inequality is Shaping the 2016 Presidential Campaign from 2016-10-24T13:00
As the contentious 2016 election season heads into its final weeks, California Live speakers from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley delve into the impact of race, gender and income...
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In The Arena with Carmen Chu and Jonathan Stein from 2016-10-10T13:00
After a surprise appointment to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2007, Carmen Chu found that she could accomplish a great deal in local government. She ran successfully for two more terms ...
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