In this week's episode, guest expert Jessie Daniels, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and at The Graduate Center, CUNY and founder of Public Scholar Academy, joins us to talk about disrupting white supremacy and advancing racial literacy on campus, the relationship between free speech and hate speech and what role institutions can play when faculty are attacked by the far right.
We wrap up with our best tips and advice related to disrupting white supremacy on campus and at the end we'll have an assignment for our listeners- we'll ask you to find out if your institution has an office or committee focused on advancing racial literacy on your campus. See what they're up to and share your story with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook and tag us @university_of_venus on IG and @UVenus on Twitter or post it on our Facebook page at
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- What do you do when you're having a bad day?
- What does it mean to disrupt white supremacy and how can we do that effectively within higher ed?
- Ways of advancing racial literacy on campus.
- Disrupting white supremacy happens over generations.
- How white supremacy operates in admissions in hiring through conversations about excellence, standards, culture fit, and quality.
- The relationship between free speech and hate speech.
- The importance of thinking of speech in terms of harm and asking: who is being harmed by the kind of speech w're inviting onto our campuses?
- The importance of racial literacy within EDI committees on campus and moving beyond bias and implicit bias.
- The ways in which white women and men can step back and open up spaces for people of color to take the lead at our institutions.
- Far right attacks of faculty as attacks on public higher education and democracy.
- The shift in higher ed from a public good to a commodity.
- The challenge of being a public scholar and a scholar activist at a time when institutions are ill-prepared to protect faculty from threats and attacks.
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Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas
Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia