In These Times, Season 2 | Embedded in History (Ep. 2)

OMNIA Podcast

The enslavement of Black people was supported by a legal system that including everything from laws preventing legal marriage to those restricting movement and access to education. When slavery was abolished, this system did not go away. Instead, it evolved to include Jim Crow laws and 20th centuries policies including redlining and urban renewal. In this episode, we speak to two historians and an anthropologist about the violence embedded in our shared history and legacies that persist.

Featuring:

Heather Williams, Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Professor of Africana Studies

Brent Cebul, Assistant Professor of History

Deborah Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography

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Produced by Lauren Rebecca Thacker

Narrated by Alex Schein

Edited by Alex Schein and Brooke Sietinsons

Interviews by Lauren Rebecca Thacker, Jane Carroll, and Blake Cole

Theme music by Nicholas Escobar, C'18

Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions and Lobo Loco

Illustration by Adriana Bellet

Logo by Drew Nealis

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