Race, Ethnicity and Marketing in 2021
Race Talk
It was less than two weeks after the storming of the U.S. Capitol and the night before President Joe Biden’s inauguration. I spoke with Mario X. Carrasco, Co-Founder and Principal of ThinkNow, an award-winning, technology driven cultural insights agency. The plan was to talk about multicultural marketing. We did. But we talked about a whole lot more.
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Change Hasn’t Come – Not Yet
Race Talk
After a week that ripped America apart, I turned to my friend, Derek Walker of Brown and Browner Advertising, to provide a racial perspective. He blew me away.
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Power Networking and Institutional Racism
Race Talk
In this episode, our guest is Valerie J. Lyons, founder of Valerie J. Lyons Enterprises, and author of the book, “Power Networking from the Inside Out: Where Your Career and Your Well Being Meet”. Valerie discusses institutional racism and how networking can help to dismantle systematic oppression.
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An Asian-American's Racial Awakening
Race Talk
In this interview, Jinghuan Liu Tervalon, an insights and strategy executive at The Coca-Cola Company, talks about her racial awakening journey and her anti-racist work in both the corporate world and the running community, while busting the model minority myth.
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"Black Wall Street - 1921" and the Tulsa Race Massacre
Race Talk
In this episode, I interview Nia Clark, a TV news reporter and the host of “Black Wall Street – 1921,” a podcast chronicling the Tulsa Race Massacre. Nia gives a fascinating account of what has been called “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.”
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Race and Education
Race Talk
In this episode of Race Talk, high school teacher, Joi Cox, shares her views of how race and racism impact education, and how teaching, when done effectively, can help undermine racist attitudes.
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Being Black and LGBTQ
Race Talk
In this episode, multicultural marketing expert, Reginald Osborne, discusses the intersectionality of being African American and LGBTQ, in marketing, in media, and in life.
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Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism
Race Talk
In this episode, clinical psychologist, Dr. Maysa Akbar, discusses the human, intergenerational effects of racism and urban trauma, and her book, “Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism.” Additionally, Dr. Akbar offers a sneak preview into her newly released book, “Beyond Ally: The Pursuit of Racial Justice.”
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Being Black in Corporate America
Race Talk
Multicultural marketing expert, Gwen Kelly, shares her experiences as an African American woman in corporate America and a longtime advocate of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Gwen offers advice to younger people in terms of opportunities she’s had, and roadblocks she’s encountered.
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Whiteness, White Privilege, and Dismantling Structural Racism
Race Talk
In this very personal episode, multicultural marketing pioneer and thought leader, Rochelle Newman-Carrasco, discusses her growing commitment to confront whiteness and privilege, at an industry and at an individual level, starting with herself. From growing up Jewish on New York City's Lower East Side; to her agency beginnings in 1980 as the first employee of a pioneering Hispanic ad agency; to the present, Rochelle combines candor and comedy into this unforgettable conversation.
info_outlineToday, nearly 90 percent of deportees are men, and over 97 percent of deportees are Latin American or Caribbean. In this episode, sociologist Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza explores the global context under which mass deportation has occurred and draws parallels with mass incarceration.