S5, Ep 045 with political analyst and author Tessa Dooms on Blackness & being Coloured in South Africa
In this episode, the podcast’s journey continues in South Africa. Host Yndia is in conversation with South African sociologist, political analyst and author Tessa Dooms about her new book, Coloured: How Classification Became Culture. Their conversation explores concepts of race and identity as they differ across the diaspora. Yndia and Tessa examine the historical significance […]
JourneysB2B YouTube Channel, Episode 4: The Imposition of Blackness
This episode discusses the “imposition of Blackness” as it relates to the white supremacy project of racialization, racial schema and racial hierarchy, and how it infiltrates public understanding. Features interviews with participants who explain the impacts of the “imposition” and how they choose to define Blackness for themselves; and leadings race scholars in sociology, anthropology, […]
JourneysB2B YouTube Channel, Episode 3: Blackness is, Blackness Ain’t
In this episode, we begin to explore how Blackness is an aspect of the human experience and what it means to belong to a diaspora where there are competing and contested meanings of what it is to be “Black” and to self-identify as such. This episode focuses on 4 participants (Alan, Ruby, Shanta and Joel) […]