Structures of Oppression: A Conversation on Race in America

In the wake of Juneteenth and the ongoing police brutality protests, "Office Hours" hears from Dr. Damien Sojoyner, a professor of anthropology, and Ms. Stephanie Jones, a PhD student in sociology. Both have focused on issues of anti-blackness and structural inequality in the United States. We discuss systemic racism, conceptions of race, the current protests, and Dr. Sojoyner's book First Strike: Educational Enclosures of Black Los Angeles, which describes how the policing, discipline, and curriculum in American schools leads to the oppression and subjugation of Black students. Resources Mentioned: https://thenewpress.com/books/fatal-invention http://www.socallib.org/ https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Other writings from Dr. Sojoyner: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/first-strike https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/sojoyner/ https://escholarship.org/content/qt35c207gv/qt35c207gv.pdf?t=oxpfpy&v=lg https://truthout.org/articles/keywords-in-black-protest-a-n-anti-vocabulary/ Our intro song was "If I Had a Dime" by David Ryan Harris.