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Caroline Light is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in WGS. Her research explores histories of citizenship and belonging, and the ways in which white supremacy, (hetero)sexism, and classism shape collective (mis)memory and archival silence. Light's first book, That Pride of Race and Character: the Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (NYU Press, 2014) illuminates the experience of southern Jewish assimilation through the lens of benevolent uplift. She illuminates the gendered and racialized performances of elite, white cultural capital as a critical mode of survival for a racially liminal community of southerners. Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press, 2017) provides a critical genealogy of our nation's ideals of armed citizenship. Beginning with the centuries-old adage “a man's home is his castle,” she tracks the history of our nation's relationship to lethal self-defense, from the duty to retreat to the “shoot first, ask questions later” ethos that prevails in many jurisdictions today. Ultimately, she contends that the contemporary appeal to “stand your ground” masks its exclusionary commitment to security for the few at the expense of the many. Credit: https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/people/caroline-light To support the show please visit: https://www.seabassmorris.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seabasspodcast/support
Dr. Yolandra Hancock, board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist, joins us to discuss Biden's new plan to battle the Omicron variant as it sweeps the nation and has people on their toes as we officially enter the winter season. We talk about the plan to distribute 500 million tests by next month and whether this timeline will be sufficient to make a dent in the spread of the virus. We also talk about how workers are not being financially protected by temporary closures of businesses during this spike after emergency assistance was discontinued a few months ago, and how this may lead to people taking more risks to ensure their financial needs, further worsening the spread. Dr. Caroline Light, is a professor and researcher at Harvard University specializing in gender, critical race and ethnic studies, and author of "Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self Defense.” Michael Harriot is a senior writer at TheRoot.com, where he covers the intersection of race, politics, and culture. They both join us to talk about the case of DJ Broadus, who was killed by Gardner Fraser in Florida in February 2018 after being shot four times at close range, twice after he had fallen to the ground, and how Fraser was not charged with homicide due to “stand your ground” laws in place in that state. We talk about the evolution of these laws, the intersection of class and race in these cases, and what could be done to change them.Ray Baker, political analyst and professor at Towson University, and Nookie Bishop, host of the Digital Gumbo Podcast, join hosts Michelle Witte and Bob Schlehuber to talk about the legal maneuvers the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department is engaged in to keep its officers of their force who have been charged with misconduct, DUIs, domestic abuse, and indecent exposure. We also talk about Kamala Harris's exchange with Charlamagne tha God and the ensuing meltdown, the end of the Kellogg's strike and how people are praising it as a huge win for workers, and the Democrats' indifference to the failure of the passage of the “Build Back Better” plan.
More than 37 states in the US allow a person to use deadly force against an intruder or attacker under the guise that they are defending themselves or their property. This is due to what are called “Stand Your Ground'' laws-- but those laws are highly controversial. In this episode, hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by three amazing guests: Alyssa Ackbar, the legislative coordinator for Team ENOUGH’s Florida Lobbying Collective and a state director with March For Our Lives, as well as part of their “Youth Congress''; Dr. Caroline Light, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard -- who also wrote the book Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense; and Dr. John Roman, a senior fellow in the Economics, Justice and Society Group at NORC at the University of Chicago who has extensive experience on the effect race plays in “Stand Your Ground'' defenses. Together, we are discussing the recent development with Stand Your Ground laws and how these laws have the potential to cause more harm than good.Mentioned in this podcast:Is There Racial Bias in “Stand Your Ground” Laws? (PBS)Why Do People Buy Guns (Roman)Race, justifiable homicide, and stand your ground laws: Analysis of FBI supplementary homicide report data (Urban Institute) Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press)Help support the podcast and Brady's mission by clicking here!For more information on Brady, follow us on social media @Bradybuzz or visit our website at bradyunited.org.Full transcripts and bibliographies of this episode are available at bradyunited.org/podcast.National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255. Music provided by: David “Drumcrazie” CurbySpecial thanks to Hogan Lovells for their long-standing legal support ℗&©2019 Red, Blue, and BradySupport the show (https://www.bradyunited.org/donate)
Hillary and Tina interview Professor Caroline Light and former Assistant State Attorney Melba V. Pearson. We focus our conversation on the controversial Stand Your Groud Law and the proposed DeSantis' Anti-Riot Bill. Caroline Light currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University and teaches courses on women, gender, and sexuality. Melba Pearson is an attorney specializing in civil rights and criminal law, with an emphasis on policy. For show notes and links to our sources, please click here (https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/articles/lmep18notes). Special Guests: Caroline Light and Melba V. Pearson.
This week, Brady called on the Ohio House of Representatives’ Criminal Justice Committee to vote against H.B. 381, a “Stand Your Ground” law which would allow individuals to use lethal force in public spaces by removing their “duty to retreat.” This bill would empower individuals to use lethal force even in confrontations that could end peacefully. Stand Your Ground laws were thrust into the national spotlight after the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and continue to be controversial. To talk about what these laws are, how they’ve developed, and their history of use against people of color, host JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady, and Dr. Caroline Light, an author and historian whose work focuses on America’s fascination with “castle doctrine”-style legislation.Mentioned in this podcast:Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press)Ahmaud Arbery Shooting Ignites Fight to Repeal ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws (the Trace)Brady Calls on Ohio Lawmakers (Brady)RBB listeners get a free quote with ADT today by clicking here!For more information on Brady, follow us on social media @Bradybuzz or visit our website at bradyunited.org.Full transcripts and bibliographies of this episode are available at bradyunited.org/podcast.National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255. Music provided by: David “Drumcrazie” CurbySpecial thanks to Hogan Lovells for their long-standing legal support ℗&©2019 Red, Blue, and BradySupport the show (https://www.bradyunited.org/donate)
Caroline Light, professor and researcher at Harvard and the author of “Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense,” tells Misfit hosts Bob Schlehuber and Jamarl Thomas that this moment has given her a lot of reason to hope as no time in the recent past has. She discusses the effects of encouraging citizens to carry lethal weapons in public to protect their property, and how the murder of Ahmaud Arbery crystallized centuries of legal discrimination and a culture that reveres whiteness, as well as the role the military has played in suppressing protest. Steve Grumbine, founder of the nonprofit Real Progressives and host of the podcast Macro n Cheese, explains that oversight of the CARES Act has been criminally negligent and is clearly benefiting the already wealthy rather than suffering American workers. This is a bipartisan robbery of the populace, as usual. He talked about what the real national debt is, how debt-scaring is used to punish the poor, and how debt hawks only end up starving the economy.Investigative reporter and documentarian Greg Palast, author of “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” and the upcoming book “How Trump Stole 2020: the Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters,” describes the police violence he’s seen on the streets of Los Angeles and then breaks down Georgia’s role as a testing ground for different types of vote suppression. Democrats do it too, he warns, but unlike Republicans, they’re trying to suppress their own left wing voters, a faction that usually breaks down along racial lines. He describes voter suppression efforts he’s witnessed in the recent past, and how voters have successfully challenged some of those efforts.Karleigh Webb, journalist, videographer and organizer, says the moment we’re in right now in the US is unique, with its closest analogue the post-Civil War labor rights. The coronavirus is helping push this wave of radicalization by showing how vulnerable so many of us are, regardless of our kaleidoscope of individual identities, and the violence meted out by police is showing people who considered themselves untouchable that they in fact are not.
Dr. Caroline Light, professor and researcher at Harvard specializing in gender, critical race and ethnic studies and the author of “Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense,” tells Misfit hosts Bob Schlehuber and Jamarl Thomas that this moment has given her a lot of reason to hope as no time in the recent past has. She discusses the effects of encouraging citizens to carry lethal weapons in public to protect their property, and how the murder of Ahmaud Arbery crystallized centuries of legal protections and a culture that reveres whiteness. They also discussed the apology by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for abetting Trump’s recent photo opportunity and what other stains lie within our national DNA.
In this penultimate episode of Season 1, we discuss the way that gender and race play into our experience of space, at a variety of scales. Our conversation is helped greatly by Caroline Light, the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University's Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, who was so kind to share some time with us. Thanks to Caroline for bringing an expert voice to this complex topic! Head to www.coalescedesign.org/what-builds-us for related readings, articles, and pictures for this week's episode
The black tradition of gun ownership is as long as our nation's history. But Blacks' rights to carry guns have been challenged at every turn. What's that history? And how did it inform attitudes among Civil Rights leaders and beyond? Guests: Nicholas Johnson, Professor of Law, Fordham University; Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Social Sciences, University of Alabama; Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University. | insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com | glow.fm/insicknessandinhealth | #EndGunViolence #GunViolence #GVP #GunSafety #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Suicide #SuicidePrevention #MeansMatter #Instrumentality #SelfDefense #ERPO #ExtremeRiskProtectionOrder #RedFlag #GVPO #MassShooting #IntimatePartnerViolence #DomesticViolence #EveryTown #MomsDemandAction #MomsDemand #StudentsDemandAction #StudentsDemand #MarchForOurLives #BradyCampaign #FamilyFire #Giffords #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #ThisIsOurLane #EnoughIsEnough #NeverAgain #NationalEmergency #MedHum #MedHumChat #NarrativeMedicine #HealthHumanities #SocialMedicine #SocialJustice #SDoH
June 7, 2018 at the Boston Athenæum. Today the United States represents about 5% of the world’s population but possesses approximately 40% of its guns. We also experience the highest number of mass shootings, which represent only a small fraction of our annual gun deaths. Perhaps ironically, the spread of guns and naturalization of gun deaths is linked to a widespread acceptance of self-defense, the right to fight back with lethal force when one feels threatened. Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense explores the complex path by which the English common law “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. Caroline Light will discuss how our nation’s history influences contemporary understandings of vulnerability and threat, and how appeals to race, gender, and class difference shape the adjudication of self-defense cases. In the process, Light seeks to illuminate a history hidden in plain sight, by showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged while weaponized against the most vulnerable.
Caroline Light of Harvard unpacks "Stand Your Ground" laws. Marion Nestle of New York Univ. answers, "What is milk?" Rebecca DeSchweinitz of Brigham Young Univ. explains why the murder investigation of Emmett Till has been reopened. Frans von der Dunk of the Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln on the role of a space lawyer. Ultra-marathoner Ryan Montgomery runs through the 135-mile races.
Dr. Caroline Light of the Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University talks with host Gilad Halpern about her recent book, That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South. It analyses the circumstances that led to the establishment of a sizable Jewish charity network in the American South in the post-Reconstruction period. This episode originally aired April 18, 2015.
Gun rights have dominated headlines the past two weeks. This isn’t the first time that debate around gun control has erupted following a mass shooting, but momentum and teenage advocacy have some people believing that this time the conversation won’t fade. With strong advocates arguing both sides of the issue, it can be difficult to deeply reflect on the role of guns and self-defense in a modern democracy. This week, host Chris Robichaud is joined by Caroline Light, Harvard Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Light, an expert on America’s relationship with self-defense, provides insight into today's debate over gun control. Want more This Week in Dystopia? Don't forget to subscribe, follow This Week in Dystopia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeekinDystopia and like the show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisWeekinDystopia/ This podcast is brought to you by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Today we'll explore the nation's stand-your-ground-gun culture with author Caroline Light. Her new book, Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense, traces America's complex, four century long relationship with firearms as means of self defense. And later, the Hampton Roads Naval Museum and Naval Station Norfolk are celebrating 100 years of women serving in the United States Navy. The museum is co-hosting a panel discussion of Women in the Navy on March 15.
Terrorism in Cyberspace: The next generation Prof. Gabriel Weimann of the department of Communication studies at the University of Haifa has been studying terrorist communication on the Internet for almost two decades. He takes host Gilad Halpern through its evolution. How Jews in the Jim Crow South labored to be white Dr. Caroline Light of Harvard University talks about her recent work with host Gilad Halpern. It analyses the circumstances that led to the establishment of a sizable Jewish charity network in the American South in the post-Reconstruction period. Music: Eifo Hayeled - Rak Bishvil Lekabel ChibukJamiroquai - Virtual InsanityRay Charles - Georgia On My Mind