white people, black music and liberation
We explore antiracism as liberation work rather than a politics of opposition.Through reflective, question driven episodes, the show examines how identity and cultural programming shape our understanding of race and belonging.
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recommendation: mixed: owning your multiracial story, embodied (opens the original)
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some part of you are can go invisible to almost everyone you meet. for most of my life i took that to mean that i didn't really fit in. this is the episode that turned me around on that. Sarah Lotus Garrett talks about owning your multiracial story in a way that cracked something open in me, and if you hold more than one identity, i think it might do the same for you. give it a listen right after mine. original show notes below: — from Embodied When Anita moved away to college, she experienced a
mixed, white-passing, and the privilege i didn't want to own (opens the original)
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let's say you, like me, hold multiple identities: is the white privilege conversation still relevant? for most of my life, i saw myself as Arab. even though i mostly got treated as white. my own liberation didn't happen until I finally took accountability for that. if you're mixed or white passing and you know that impulse to look away from privilege, this one is for you, habibi. white people, black music, and liberation is an independent podcast exploring race, music, and what it means to move
recommendation: reissued, african vinyl in the 21st century (afropop worldwide) (opens the original)
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this is an investigative piece on the vinyl reissue market, and it might be some of the best reporting I've heard in this space. Afropop Worldwide's Morgan Greenstreet lets label owners, DJs, and artists speak for themselves, and the nuances of the story come through because of it. I've seen artists recorded in Mali who didn't get their fair shake, and this episode sits inside that complexity instead of flattening it. if you collect African vinyl, or you care about how power and colonialism show
recommendation (erich's intro): reissued, african vinyl in the 21st century (afropop worldwide) (opens the original)
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this is an investigative piece on the vinyl reissue market, and it might be some of the best reporting I've heard in this space. Afropop Worldwide's Morgan Greenstreet lets label owners, DJs, and artists speak for themselves, and the nuances of the story come through because of it. I've seen artists recorded in Mali who didn't get their fair shake, and this episode sits inside that complexity instead of flattening it. if you collect African vinyl, or you care about how power and colonialism show
the prisoner, number one, and the racism i can't see (opens the original)
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the prisoner was created by and stars patrick mcgoohan. it is one of the strangest, most psychedelic, most uncompromising pieces of television ever made. and it ends with a reveal that caused a near riot in britain and sent mcgoohan into hiding in the mountains for two weeks. . the most obvious layer of racism is the external one. the structures, the history, the systems. and that layer is real and it matters. but there is another layer underneath it. the programming that was installed so early,
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