#30: Whiteness (Dr. Dawn-Marie McIntosh)

What is Whiteness? Why does it feel like such a scary word? And what does it have to do with the War on Drugs? Dawn-Marie McIntosh joins me for a conversation about power. The United States was built upon the institution of White Supremacy, but the slavery and murder of black folks was eventually replaced by a system of segregation much more insidious than white supremacy. Whiteness is the Jim Crow South in contemporary language. Its the same rules and laws, now internalized so that we...