A book talk with USC Price PhD, Anthony W. Orlando!
More than fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, American cities remain divided along the very same lines that this landmark legislation explicitly outlawed. Keeping Races in Their Places tells the story of these lines — who drew them, why they drew them, where they drew them, and how they continue to circumscribe residents’ opportunities to this very day.
Los Angeles Times quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the legalities surrounding a woman who unleashed a racist tirade during a traffic stop. “It assumes that you know what the motivations of this particular [deputy] are.” Full article here
KPCC-FM interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the potential impact of San Francisco’s CAREN Act, which gives the targets of racist 9-1-1 calls the right to sue the caller. “There are real risks that are generated by false reports to the police about blacks.” Listen here
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on his new book and the history of racist language deployed against Black people. “What makes so many people who aren’t Black feel like they have a license to use the word is because Blacks use the word in Read more…
The nation has witnessed two weeks of civil unrest; and policing as a political institution has been under public scrutiny for decades. With protests in all 50 states during this latest public outcry, a call for reform resounds. As we work toward a resolution many are asking – what do Read more…
Univision News featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the history of protests and pushback against structural racism in America. “What we are seeing is the culmination of 400 years of oppression and resistance,” he said. Armour was also quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV will feature a virtual town hall on rooting out racism that will include Jody Armour of the USC Gould School, Najuma Smith-Pollard of the USC Cecil Murray Center and Erroll Southers of the USC Price School. NBCLA’s Virtual Town Hall, “The Time is Now: Read more…
Los Angeles Times quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the recent viral video documenting white privilege in Central Park. “It reminds me of the Emmett Till case,” said USC law professor Jody David Armour, who studies race and criminal justice. “A white woman who alleged that a Read more…
Jody Armour was quoted by Los Angeles Wave about the necessity to minimize harm to the black community during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is hitting marginalized communities harder.
Jody David Armour was interviewed on Fox11 Los Angeles about the call for the public to wear masks while going on essential errands in Los Angeles due to COVID-19.
Host Aubrey Hicks is joined by professors Chris Redfearn and Liz Falletta in a discussion of the New York Times bestselling book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.
On today’s podcast, we talk about how white fragility works to sustain and reproduce the racist institutions & socialization which we all inherited.
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Los Angeles Timesquoted Jody Armourof the USC Gould School in a story about free speech and political signs at a high school football game. KPCC-FMinterviewed Armour about the controversy. The chant easily can become “weaponizing patriotism,” Armour said. “You’re using it as a way of insinuating that the people on Read more…
National Public Radio highlighted commentary by Jody Armourof the USC Gould School in a story on the problems of people calling the police unnecessarily in racially charged situations. “You have an alarming tendency of white people starting to use 911 as their kind of customer service line when they have any Read more…
“I lost an arm on my last trip home.
My left arm.”
The iconic first line of Octavia Butler’s novel, Kindred, puts the reader right there. The gravity of the legacy of slavery is there in the face. Who has lost an arm? How? Why?
Listen as host Jeffery Jenkins and guests Ange-Marie Alfaro, Caroline Bhalla, and Aubrey Hicks as they think about this classic work of American fiction.
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Speaking to cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, USC Price School of Public Policy Professor Erroll Southers let them know that, even though they are intelligent students demonstrating a commitment to being the next generation of American leaders, they are also prime targets for recruitment by homegrown violent extremist organizations.
Strong female characters ground Mudbound as it tells of the challenges returning soldiers with different world views as they return to family and a small Mississippi community that hasn’t weathered the storms and triumphs they have seen half a world away. A spoilery conversation on this ensemble film about war at home and abroad.
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Get Out follows a young African-American photographer on a visit to his white girlfriend’s parents’ home. The tag line sums up the deep horror of the film, “Just because you’re invited, doesn’t mean you’re welcome.” The film is funny, scary, and has sparked conversations (and even a viral challenge) throughout the country.
Find out what we think …
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This month’s book is both poetry and criticism, Citizen: An American Lyric. Rankine’s piece is a revolution. A political, a poetic, complex revolution in 169 pages. We look at it through an unusual lens – what should we take away from works of art as we think about governance in America?
Join the USC Bedrosian Center and the USC School of Social Work Office of Global and Community Initiatives for a viewing of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. This work of documentary theatre weaves a portrait of real individuals who experienced the violent aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial. “The piece explores the social, economic and political lines that Read more…
