Columbia Race Talks: Critical Race Theory (CRT2) is a project of the Studio for Law and Culture at Columbia Law School. Produced by students in the Critical Race Theory Seminar Workshop, CRT2 uses critical race theory as a lens to look at charged issues, contested histories and contemporary debates about law, culture and the politics of race.
The Studio for Law and Culture facilitates interdisciplinary study, research and scholarship on the intersections of law and culture. The Critical Race Theory Workshop Seminar, taught by Kendall Thomas and Flores Forbes, explores interdisciplinary scholarship on race, racism, and law. CRT2 understands law in an institutional and cultural sense and seeks to support civil literacy and capacity building inside and outside the classroom. The series covers current local and global issues across a range of topics in conversation with academics, students, community members, and persons with relevant lived experiences.
EPISODES
Columbia Race Talks: Critical Race Theory
The Scarlet Letter of Incarceration: Barriers to Women’s Re-entry
S.1 E.1 – June 27, 2022
Featuring: Vivian Nixon (Writer in Residence at the Square One Project and former ED of the College and Community Fellowship), DeAnna Hoskins (CEO of JustLeadershipUSA and former DOJ Senior Poicy Advisor), and Harmony Hope (Producer on WBAI Radio’s “On the Count”)
Extra Special featuring Shameeka France (Founder of Success After Prison) and her daughter Empress.
CRT and Family Regulation System: Toward Abolition
S.1 E.2 – July 11, 2022
Featuring: Anna Arons (Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law School)
Movement Lawyering in Law School
S.1 E.3 – July 25, 2022
Featuring: Alejo Rodrigues (Project Director of Breakthrough in Abolition Through Transformative Legal Empowerment and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School) and Susan Sturm (George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and the Founding Director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School)
CRT, Columbia Law School and the Legacies of Slavery: The Black Male Initiative
S.1 E.4 – August 8, 2022
Featuring: Katherine Franke (James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School), Darren Hutchinson (Professor at Emory University School of Law and John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice) and Athena Mutua (Professor of Law and Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at the University of Buffalo)
Race and the Reality of Reproductive Rights in the United States
S.1 E.5 – August 22, 2022
Featuring: Anna Rupani (Executive Director of Fund Texas Choice) and Carol Sanger (Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School)
Intersectionality and Violence Against Women
S.1 E.6 – September 5, 2022
Featuring: A CRT Student Discussion
Color Lines: Geography and Racial Control
S.1 E.7 – September 19, 2022
Featuring: Stephanie Cooper (VP of Rise St. James) and Flores Forbes (Associate VP in the Office of Government and Community Affairs and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law and at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University)
The Backlash to CRT in France
S.1 E.8 – October 3, 2022
Featuring: Maboula Soumahoro (Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at University of Tours)
Extra Special featuring Sylvie Laurent (Professor of American Studies at Sciences Po Paris)
PODCAST CREDITS
Each episode is written, edited and produced by a team of students from the Critical Race Theory Seminar Workshop at Columbia Law School.
Executive Producers: Flores Forbes and Kendall Thomas
Audio Engineering: Monica Hunter-Hart
Media Design: Remy Chwae
Website Design: Jessica Gadea Hawkins and Stephanie Abrahams
Additional Support: Michelle Wilson
Music courtesy of Free Music Archive
FEATURED IMAGE
Arguing the Cause
By Barbara Pollack
United States, 1985
Collage with photoreproduction, gouache, and colored pencil
44 1/2 x 60 in.
Description: “Arguing the cause was commissioned by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. to commemorate Jack Greenberg’s thirty-five years as a staff attorney and as Director-Counsel of the prestigious civil rights organization. The collage reflects the highpoints of Greenberg’s outstanding career as the Fund which include such landmark cases as Brown v. Board of Education and Furman v. Georgia. The title of the collage is derived from a sentence preceding over forty United States Supreme Court decisions, ‘Jack Greenberg argued the cause for petitioner’, yet it encompasses Greenberg’s broader role within the civil rights movement.”