Race and Redemption

What is Systemic Racism?

Episode Summary

Brooke and Susan unpack the way racism has manifested historically and currently in America's systems, mindsets and institutions.

Episode Notes

Citations:

• https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
• https://study.com/academy/lesson/headright-system-definition-lesson-quiz.html#:~:text=The%20headright%20system%20was%20originally,received%2050%20acres%20of%20land.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Punch_(slave)
• https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076ade42
• https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1705.html
• https://www.history.com/news/last-hired-first-fired-how-the-great-depression-affected-african-americans
• https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
• https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n4/v70n4p49.html
• https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits
• https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/confederate-states-of-america#:~:text=The%20Confederate%20States%20of%20America,election%20of%20President%20Abraham%20Lincoln.
• https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/4/17189310/martin-luther-king-anniversary-race-inequality-racism
• https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/history-mass-incarceration
• https://newrepublic.com/article/129433/clintons-war-drugs-black-lives-didnt-matter
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_in_the_United_States
• https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/workshop/leo/leo16_fryer.pdf
• https://www.statista.com/chart/21872/map-of-police-violence-against-black-americans/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface