For Episode 14, I am joined by Dr. Charles W. McKinney, Jr. to talk about dehumanization techniques, the importance of race-conscious thinking, the dangerous logic of eugenics, whether an anti-racist technology is possible (or desirable), and “Men Against Fire.”
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Dr. Charles W. McKinney, Jr. is is The Neville Frierson Bryan
Chair of Africana Studies and an Associate Professor of history at Rhodes
College in Memphis. He writes and thinks about the Civil Rights/Black Power
Era, African American Activism, and African American Politics. He received a
bachelor’s degree in history from Morehouse College and completed his doctoral
studies at Duke University. And he’s not post-racial.
McKinney is the author of Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina (2010) and co-editor, with Aram Goudsouzian, of An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee (2018). He tweets at @CharlesWMcKinn2.
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Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more… so here’s a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:
- Charles W. McKinney, Jr. “2018 Convocation Address at Rhodes College”
- Philip Gourevitch, We Wish To Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1999)
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977)
- Andrea DenHoed, “The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement” (The New Yorker, 2016)
- Alicia Garza on “vanilla ISIS”
- 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
- David Livingston Smith, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (2020)
- S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command (1947)
- brain machine interfaces (BMI)
- Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
- “Thanos” | Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Logan’s Run (1976 film)
- Thomas Douglas, “Moral Enhancement” (Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2008)
- Paul C. Taylor, Race: A Philosophical Introduction (2013)
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