BCS Race Talk

James sits down with Rebecca Hankins, associate professor and library archivist at Texas A&M University, about the need to recapture the histories of minorities' contribution to our society, the presence of Muslim African Americans in antebellum United States, and the Matthew Gaines statue initiative on TAMU campus. Learn more about the Matthew Gaines statue campaign here: https://studentaffairs.tamu.edu/students/matthew-gaines-statue/ Music by Subhashish Panigrahi under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. No changes were made to the track. Link to audio track: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_music_track_suitable_for_background_music.flac Link to license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

James chats with Roukaya Mabizari, newly minted Texas A&M University alumna class of 2019! Roukaya shares her experiences growing up as a Muslim American in a diverse neighborhood in Houston, and her time here at TAMU, including a case of profiling that resulted in an encounter with two FBI agents. Mabizari volunteered as a court appointed special advocate (CASA) in Bryan-College Station. To learn more about the organization which facilitates this program on behalf of foster care children, please check out the following website: http://vfcbrazos.org/ Music by Subhashish Panigrahi under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. No changes were made to the track. Link to audio track: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_music_track_suitable_for_background_music.flac Link to license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

James speaks with Melissa Silva and Andrea Poehl of BCS Be the Bridge, an informal Christian network devoted to racial reconciliation in Bryan-College Station. They discuss implicit bias, individual and systemic racism, educational inequality, and what their religious faith has to do with racial reconciliation. In our conversation Melissa mentioned a book by Austin Channing Brown. A link to that book can be found here: http://austinchanning.com/the-book Check out BCS Be the Bridge's FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BCSBetheBridge/ Also, here are some additional resources published over the past 20 years regarding educational inequality in our country according to race: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/unequal-opportunity-race-and-education/ https://www.aecf.org/resources/race-matters1/ https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-education-still-separate-and-unequal Music by Subhashish Panigrahi under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. No changes were made to the track. Link to audio track: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_music_track_suitable_for_background_music.flac Link to license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

James sits down with Jane Sherman, Jay Pedregosa, and Josh Jang to chat about their experiences in Part 1 of our conversation with Asian Americans in Bryan-College Station. Music by Subhashish Panigrahi under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. No changes were made to the track. Link to audio track: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_music_track_suitable_for_background_music.flac Link to license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

James chats with Judge Willie Blackmon, '73, one of the first African American athletes on scholarship at Texas A&M University, and Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 1994. Judge Blackmon talks about his experiences in Aggieland post-integration and now, his book project, and even tells the little known origin story of Reveille I. The podcast references a Finaid.org study about the distribution of grants and scholarships by race. The link to that study, published in 2011, is here: http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf Music by Subhashish Panigrahi under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. No changes were made to the track. Link to audio track: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_music_track_suitable_for_background_music.flac Link to license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

James chats with Adrienne Dobson, artistic director of the Theatre Company of Bryan-College Station, about their experiences in theater, the importance of representation onstage, and what community theater means to Bryan-College Station. To purchase tickets for the Theatre Company's next show, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, check out out their website: www.theatrecompany.com/tickets/ Music by Subhashish Panigrahi under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. No changes were made to the track. Link to audio track: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_music_track_suitable_for_background_music.flac Link to license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Introducing the BCS Race Talk podcast! This limited series podcast will explore racial identity and relations in Bryan-College Station, TX. Host James Cho explains the need to educate ourselves on race in light of the changing racial demographics of America. U.S. Census Projections: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1143.pdf The Civil Rights Project at the University of California Los Angeles studies: https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/brown-at-60-great-progress-a-long-retreat-and-an-uncertain-future/Brown-at-60-051814.pdf https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/brown-at-62-school-segregation-by-race-poverty-and-state/Brown-at-62-final-corrected-2.pdf Music by Subhashish Panigrahi under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. No changes were made to the track. Link to audio track: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samp…und_music.flac Link to license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en