Season Recap: Racism and Inequality

September 19th, 2020  |  Season 3  |  48 mins 8 secs

We look back at our discoveries reading a range of different books on racism and inequality

Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg

September 14th, 2020  |  Season 3  |  29 mins 38 secs

communication, compassion, empathy

An approach to nonviolent living

Discrimination and Disparities - Thomas Sowell

August 21st, 2020  |  Season 3  |  33 mins 46 secs

analysis, equality, racism

A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches to issues of economic and other disparities

How to be an antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

August 10th, 2020  |  Season 3  |  37 mins 8 secs

equality, racism

How to Be an Antiracist is a 2019 non-fiction book by American author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. The book discusses concepts of racism and Kendi's proposals for anti-racist individual actions and systemic changes.

White fragility - Robin DiAngelo

August 5th, 2020  |  Season 3  |  44 mins 8 secs

equality, racism

Learn why discussing racism is so taboo and difficult

Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race - Rene Eddo-Lodge

July 3rd, 2020  |  Season 3  |  37 mins 36 secs

equality, politics, race

The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations today.

Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit

June 19th, 2020  |  Season 3  |  36 mins 32 secs

activism, environment, politics

Radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next.