005: Respectability Politics

from White Homework · host Tori Williams Douglass, Benjamin Faye

Tori is joined by Alice Hamilton to discuss the moving goal posts for Black and brown humanity. We break down the impossible tasks of achieving full humanity within the construct of whiteness through behavior modification and all the ways that whiteness tells on itself by killing Black and brown people regardless of how respectable we are. Executive Producers Jeffrey Martin Nate Frazier Producer Jillian Cohan Martin Audio Producer and Editor Nash Propst Artwork Slade Sundar www.sladesundar.com Music by K.Solis

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