{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Racism in Liberal Societies with Debra Thompson","description":"Debra Thompson, a McGill professor and political scholar on the comparative politics of race, joins host Sanjay Ruparelia for a conversation on racism and democracy in Canada and the U.S. In this episode, Thompson discusses the way racist policies and systems of oppression operate differently in the two countries, resulting in a complicated relationship between Black citizens and their national identity. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Show Notes: Debra Thompson   In this episode of On The Frontlines of Democracy, host Sanjay Ruparelia talks to Debra Thompson, the Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University. The pair talk about the way systems of oppression operate in both the American and the Canadian contexts\u2014how they\u2019re similar, and how they\u2019re different. Host: Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair and Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Guest: Debra Thompson, Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University.  Background Reading:  Debra Thompson\u2019s The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging W. E. B. DuBois\u2019 The Souls of Black Folk Joel Olson\u2019s The Abolition of White Democracy Michelle Alexander\u2019s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness Debra Thompson\u2019s The Puzzling Persistence of Racial Inequality in Canada Debra Thompson\u2019s \u201cIs this what democracy looks like?\u201d  Debra Thompson\u2019s \u201cWhat, to the descendants of the enslaved, is Canada Day?\u201d  Sean Mills\u2019 The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal Ta-Nehesi Coates\u2019 Between the World and Me        ","author_name":"On the Frontlines of Democracy","author_url":"https:\/\/www.jarislowskydemocracychair.ca\/frontlines-of-democracy","html":"