kinfolk, not skinfolk

09/30/20 • 61 min

What do the 2020 US presidential election, an unending obsession with ancestry tests, and COVID19 have in common? The same thing we all have in common—99.9% in common, to be precise. Join CA as he traces the long winding thread that misleads us to believe that race is determined by DNA.

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takin' it back

Contrary to what a "postracial" America believed when Barack Obama was elected, mixed race people are older than the New World itself. Three origins—New Spain throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the Virginian Commonwealth in 1655, and Africa's Gold Coast at the start of the transatlantic slave trade—reveal how the concept of race was constructed in the name of empire, which birthed the very idea of "mixing" races.

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a (little) LATTO: Kamala Harris

In this ~little~ LATTO thought, Nitasha Sharma (Northwestern University) and Kaneesha Parsard (University of Chicago) speak on the impact of Kamala Harris' presence in American politics on racial consciousness, nonwhite mixed ancestry, creole nationalism, and Asian indentureship in American and Caribbean history. Music by Makaya McCraven.

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