White Homework
Tori Williams Douglass
Recent Episodes
“As we recognize that humans are human, and worthy of human rights, conservative white america is dying this slow demographic death and rebelling.”
Why is it that the exact arguments used against trans people and DEI were being used in defense of slavery in pre emancipation America? I reached out to Andrew Seidel to discuss this patter because he wrote about and debunked all these arguments in his book The Founding Myth: How Christian Nationalism is Unamerican. (Linked at bookshop.org, not the rainforest oligarch's store.) We talk about how, despite the debunking, authoritarian thinkers keep clinging to biblical literalism to justify withholding human rights.
Andrew works for Americans United, and I strongly recommend you check out their incredible work.
CW ⚠️: this episode contains references to suicide and diets. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis in the US or Canada you can dial 988 to get support.
Fan fave Andre Henry is back to talk about the practice of building resilience in the context of supremacist culture. Honestly, this conversation had me tearing up in places, and yet left me completely inspired and grounded. As you probably already know, I'm so grateful for Andre's work.
You can find Andre's book at Bookshop.org (and by doing so, support local bookstores instead of the jungle name corp)
You can find Andre's music on all the music players, here's a link to his Spotify.
The Greater Good Toolkit that Andre references can be found HERE.
The books Andre mentions in this episode are
Living While Black by Ajuan Mance
Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters
Why is it that the same arguments used to defend slavery are being used to dehumanize trans people? Why is it that there's no way for most white evangelicals to separate their faith and their nationalism? Why is the Constitution conflated with the Bible? Corey and Tori try to disentangle Christianity from Americanism
You can find Corey on IG: @existentialpodcast
Today we are taking a crack at ye olde Prager "University" meme about the first Black US representatives, which correctly points out that they were all Republicans and incorrectly implies that their party affiliation mattered for much, then or now. Turns out, they were woke too! Don't tell Dennis!
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I've been wanting to try a new format for the show for a while so I took a stab at it this week with Janice Lagata of God Has Not Given. We talk about the fascinating true story of Mary Richards Bowser, a Union spy who was also enslaved. I would LOVE to know what you think about this format, mainly because if you all hate it, I don't want to keep trying to make it happen! 😆
Sign up for Janice's email list HERE. Go follow her on IG at @godhasnotgiven. Subscribe to her podcasts HERE and HERE.
Episode sources:
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/bowser-mary-richards-fl-1846-1867/
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/mary-jane-richards
https://time.com/5609045/misremembering-mary-bowser/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/elizabeth-van-lew-an-unlikely-union-spy-158755584/