Race Talk

Race Talk is the podcast where race is front and center. We will be interviewing sociologists, demographers, activists, marketers, and historians about race and racism in order to garner a clearer understanding of where we've been, where we are, and where we are going.

Race, Ethnicity and Marketing in 2021 01/27/2021

Race, Ethnicity and Marketing in 2021 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. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/17714681

Change Hasn’t Come – Not Yet 01/13/2021

Change Hasn’t Come – Not Yet 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. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/17532893

Power Networking and Institutional Racism 12/18/2020

Power Networking and Institutional Racism 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. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/17248547

An Asian-American's Racial Awakening 12/07/2020

An Asian-American's Racial Awakening 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. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/17095310

"Black Wall Street - 1921" and the Tulsa Race Massacre 08/20/2020

"Black Wall Street - 1921" and the Tulsa Race Massacre 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.” /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/15692033

Race and Education 08/01/2020

Race and Education 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. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/15439016

Being Black and LGBTQ 07/23/2020

Being Black and LGBTQ In this episode, multicultural marketing expert, Reginald Osborne, discusses the intersectionality of being African American and LGBTQ, in marketing, in media, and in life. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/15331325

Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism 07/14/2020

Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism 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.” /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/15205487

Being Black in Corporate America 07/10/2020

Being Black in Corporate America 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. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/15156866

Whiteness, White Privilege, and Dismantling Structural Racism 06/29/2020

Whiteness, White Privilege, and Dismantling Structural Racism 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. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/15001034

Race in Advertising, Racism in America 05/30/2020

Race in Advertising, Racism in America In this interview, coincidentally recorded the morning of George Floyd's murder, Derek Walker of brown and browner Advertising, offers his candid view of multicultural marketing, race, and racism in America. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/14630741

The Parallels between Mass Incarceration and Mass Deportation 05/19/2020

The Parallels between Mass Incarceration and Mass Deportation Today, 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. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/14487791

Hispanic Marketing: An Interview with Dr. Felipe Korzenny 05/01/2020

Hispanic Marketing: An Interview with Dr. Felipe Korzenny In this episode, Hispanic marketing guru, Dr. Felipe Korzenny, discusses the ins and outs of successful marketing to Latinx consumers, with a focus on culture. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/14240663

COVID-19 and Racial Disparities 04/15/2020

COVID-19 and Racial Disparities Race Talk host, David Morse, discusses how people of color, particularly African Americans, are suffering and dying from Coronavirus in much larger numbers. Morse examines some of the causes as well as how the current situation fits into a much larger historical pattern of healthcare disparities and medical racism. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/13993643

Black STILL Matters in Marketing 04/10/2020

Black STILL Matters in Marketing In this episode, market researcher, author, thought leader, and Black American subject matter expert, Pepper Miller, joins me to talk about Black Americans' value (as a people and market segment) and how brands can better engage Black America so they can have loyal customers and a positive bottom line. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/13935041

Sexual Violence and Race in the Post-Emancipation South 03/22/2020

Sexual Violence and Race in the Post-Emancipation South In this episode, Professor Hannah Rosen discusses her book "Terror in the Heart of Freedom", a startling portrayal of the sexual violence visited upon black women after the Civil War, and how citizenship, gender and sexuality intersected with violence during Reconstruction. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/13651709

White Supremacists and the Anatomy of Organized Hate 03/03/2020

White Supremacists and the Anatomy of Organized Hate In this episode, I interview D&I expert Lonnie Lusardo about his book "The Anatomy of Organized Hate: Stories of Former White Supremacists - and America's Struggle to Understand the Hate Movement." /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/13398815

The Second Founding : How Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 02/10/2020

The Second Founding : How Reconstruction Remade the Constitution In this episode, I interview Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian, Eric Foner, about his book "The Second Founding", an amazingly timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/13089269

The Second Founding : How Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 02/10/2020

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology 01/21/2020

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology In her book, "Medical Bondage", Queens College, CUNY professor Deidre Cooper Owens moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/12832493

Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race 01/08/2020

Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race Dr. Chinyere Osuji discusses her book, "Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race". It' an amazing work of scholarship rooted in comparing and contrasting black/white marriages in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/12655400

Welcome to Race Talk! 01/06/2020

Welcome to Race Talk! A Welcome and an Introduction to Race Talk. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/12637343

Multicultural Marketing in 2020 01/03/2020

Multicultural Marketing in 2020 Multicultural marketer Isaac Mizrahi shares his thoughts on marketing to multicultural consumers. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/12607037

White Nationalists, White Anti-Racists, and the Meaning of Whiteness 01/02/2020

White Nationalists, White Anti-Racists, and the Meaning of Whiteness Dr. Matthew Hughey discusses his research with two groups, white nationalists and white anti-racists, offering interesting points of comparison between two seemingly disparate groups. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/12597437

The Immigrant Archive Project 01/02/2020

The Immigrant Archive Project Tony Hernandez discusses his work with the Immigrant Archive Project (IAP) as well as revealing much about his own personal experience as a young 1st generation American from Cuba. /episode/index/show/dmauthor/id/12597020

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