Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael C Dawson

Dr. Vincent Lloyd, Director of Africana Studies at Villanova University, talks to theologian and social theorist Matt Vega about his doctoral research around racial capital, which Vega examines through personal, theological, and academic lenses. Vega's understanding of the relationship between race and capitalism, he says, was greatly influenced by political scientist Dr. Michael C. Dawson, who administered Vega's “Race and Capitalism” Qualifying Examination at the University of Chicago. (Vega highly recommends watching this breakdown of race and capitalism by Dr. Dawson.) Vega's recent essay on racial capitalism is part of the Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0 series on the Political Theology Network. In this episode of OP Talks, he encourages theologians to think through the relationship between race, capitalism, and theology for three reasons: 1. "First, there's the origin reason. So, modern conceptions of race and the origins of capitalism as a distinct mode of production emerged within the context of mission." 2. "The second reason is the conversation reason. I think studying racial capitalism is important for theologians to foster cross-cultural conversations about how dynamics of race and capitalism might both be at work, rather than thinking about one at the exclusion of the other." 3. "The last reason it's important for theologians is because I think it should push us to think about the sources we have within our traditions [with which] to think about or respond to racial capitalism." ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Dawson, Michael C. “Why Race and Capitalism Not Racial Capitalism? (Critical Race Studies): Racial Capitalism(s) I.” Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, 25 March 2021. Dawson, Michael C. and Emily A. Katzenstein. “Articulated Darkness: White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Capitalism in Shelby's Dark Ghettos.” The Journal of Political Philosophy 27.2, June 2019: 252-268. Jennings, Willie James. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. Yale University Press, 2011. Lloyd, Vincent. Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination. Yale University Press, 2022. Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2020. Robinson, Cedric James Robinson. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Zed Press, 1983. [PDF] Vega, Matthew. CRITICAL THEORY FOR POLITICAL THEOLOGY 2.0: Racial Capitalism. Political Theology Network, 3 May 2022.

In this episode, Podmas installment #4, I discuss the dangers of tokenism on all sides of the political spectrum and the double bind for leftists of color. --- Readings & Resources Interview w/ Thurgood Marshall https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-29-mn-1178-story.html Michael C. Dawson - Blacks in and Out of the Left https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057685 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In our haste to digitize, computerize, and distill our world into comma-separated values and JSON files, necessities of diversity, diversity in data collection, and diversity in programmers gets lost in the mix and is deemed unimportant. So, when a Black man and his friends are tagged as “gorillas” by Google Photos’ facial recognition software, when a TikTok story book semblance filter turns white people into royalty and POC into animals or monsters, when the implicit and explicit biases of the people behind the lines of code appear in the user interface of these public programs, we are left to ask, is social media racist?! Just as children can be taught to be racist through socialization, artificial intelligence and machine learning models learn to be racist as they reflect the biases of their “parent” programmers. It is critical that we ask ourselves to examine and interrogate the data beyond the typical performance tests. Who is building these models, and what kinds of data collection shortcomings could give such skewed results as the mis-categorization of humans as primates? How can we retrace and reconnect the end product outputs and programs to the prejudice that leads to discriminatory tendencies? In other words, how do we work to fix this data-driven world? Our hosts Lena and Dinah are joined by special guest Dr. Michael C. Dawson, a Professor of Political Science here at the University of Chicago. In this episode, we are getting down into the true essence of coding hate and the ways in which technology and social media input data from the real world and reproduce these biases online. But technology does not have to rule our world. One way or another, we are reclaiming our data and taking a stance against online prejudice. This Episode’s Hosts: Dinah Clottey (Outreach Manager) and Lena Diasti (Executive Producer)Join the KSFam! We saved you a seat at the table. Link up with us on all available social media platforms:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kindasortabrown/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kindasortabrownFacebook: https://facebook.com/kindasortabrown/ For further inquiries, email us: kindasortabrown@gmail.com Audio transcriptions of KSB episodes are here! Access this episode’s transcription PDF here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1XNBWRGMWaP5l2FzmHItG3ap-p0AOEkpM Or, look through our Google Drive of transcriptions here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1XNBWRGMWaP5l2FzmHItG3ap-p0AOEkpM Lead Contributors: Lena Diasti (Executive Producer), Hope Houston (Production Manager), Jon Brooks (Social Media Coordinator), Dinah Clottey (Outreach Manager), Chase Leito (Audio Engineer), and Daisy Okoye (Content Creator). Supporting Contributors: Narvella Sefah (Front-End Team), Fernanda Ponce (Content Team), Nicole Maria Mateo (Audio Team).KSB was a TOP 10 FINALIST for NPR’s 2021 College Podcast Competition! Check out our entry “PWI-ing While Black” on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-306628760/pwi-ing-while-black Kinda Sorta Brown is a University of Chicago Public Policy Podcast, as shown here: https://www.uc3p.org/kindasortabrown

In this episode of New Dawn, Michael C. Dawson along with special guest host, Charisse Burden Stelly, invite Dr. Takiyah Harper-Shipman, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. Professor Harper-Shipman is particularly interested in the ways in which discourse structures political economies of development, human rights, and-more recently-gender. Her first book, Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa (Routledge), examined how development stakeholders in Burkina Faso and Kenya negotiate "owning development" in their local contexts. Professor Harper-Shipman is currently at work on another project that explores legacies of population control in human rights approaches to family planning.

This week on Open Stacks, discussions about two of the most fervently debated and scrutinized institutions: prisons and public schools. First, Touissant Losier sits down with Michael C. Dawson to discuss the book Losier and Dan Berger co-authored, Rethinking the American Prison Movement. Then, Bill Ayers and Crystal Laura talk about Laura’s book, "You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!": And 18 Other Myths about Teachers, Teachers Unions, and Public Education, co-authored with Rick Ayers.    

“Deeply rooted in Black radical, feminist and socialist traditions, Taylor's book is an outstanding example of the type of analysis that is needed to build movements for freedom and self-determination in a far more complicated terrain than that confronted by the activists of the 20th century.” —Michael C. Dawson, author of Blacks In and Out of the Left Keeanga-Yamahtta is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book. Taylor spoke on Monday, December 5, at Impact Hub in Oakland. She addressed the current crisis as well as the historical entwining of race and class in American politics, and possible ways forward for a multiracial working class-oriented social justice movement. The post Womens Magazine – December 12, 2016 – Keanga-Yamhatta Taylor appeared first on KPFA.