Episode 25: The First Rule of Racism…

The Invention of Racism

This episode explores the reproduction of racism through silence and the restriction of knowledge and information by looking at the pop culture film Fight Club and the famous tagline: "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club."

Key words: Racism, White Supremacy, Fight Club (book and film), Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher, White Males, Black Males, Ed Guerrero, Framing Blackness, Rebel without A Cause (film), James Dean, Law Enforcement, “Race Card,” Catchphrases, Coded Language, The Southern Strategy, H. Lee Atwater, Neoliberalism, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, Ian F. Haney-Lopez, Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment, Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas, Twenty Years of Critical Race Theory: Looking Back To Move Forward , Kimberlé Crenshaw, Abstract Speech, Angie Maxwell, Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, Haile Gerima, Adwa—An African Victory (film).

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Correction: Episode 24 is "#WhenRacistsMislabelThings: The Myths Surrounding Critical Race Theory."

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