Dilemmas of the Black male identity | Tommy Curry

Tommy Curry discusses how black male identity has come to epitomise a process of racial characterisation legitimising violence and reinforcing dehumanisation.

This interview was recorded at the HowTheLighGetsIn Festival Hay 2022. Grab your tickets for the upcoming London edition on the 17th & 18th September 2022!

00:00 What do you mean by: "No one wants to admit that race is real"?
03:40 Why is the intersectional approach to racism problematic?
08:00 How do you think of male gender in relation to race?
12:20 How has Black malae identity been caricatured?
15:35 Is there a place for Critical Race Theory in our society?
23:25 How do we step away from the idea that we can't fully abolish racism?

In this interview, philosopher Tommy Curry discusses how we distinguish racism as a structural, cultural and historical process from racism merely as an individual bias. Curry explains why the cultural predilection toward colour-blindness is dangerous and explores why the intersectional approach to race is problematic, as it can lead to anachronistic readings of different identities throughout history. He also argues that understanding the ways people are dominated, colonised and exterminated - largely depends on how they eliminate and target their men.

Tommy Curry is a philosophy professor at Edinburgh University where he holds a Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male studies. His research focusses on Africana Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Anti-Colonialism, Black Male Studies and Public Health.

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[TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas]

Should we do away with intersectionality within the study and dismantling of racism?

[HowardWimshurst]

Wow, this professor has opened my eyes. I was taught in sociology about racial femenism - black women were pictured as being at the bottom of the social heirarchy, and i never questioned that until now.
Also a really important contribution to the discussion around color blindness.
Learning so much from this man

Even more impressive that he told me all of this in one unpunctuated sentence 🤯

[OnCloud]

I’m grateful to have come across this interview!

[markbryant]

Excellent Doc. Intersectionality to divide and parallel lines where they never meet but we all know we’re very much intertwined

[jamesstephens]

Dr Curry arguments are very well throughout and informative.

[rhondawoodhouse]

Heartfelt appreciation for Dr. Curry!🙏🏾

[Kwasimitsu]

Great interview. I appreciate the long form format so we hear the subjects entire position on a given point. Dr Curry is a huge gain for European scholarship, and a loss for the US for certain.

[herbertharris]

Great interview with Professor Tommy Curry. He speaks with historical, investigative and logical facts and information. Thanks Dr. T. Curry!

[CubanDes]

Happy I came across this interview especially with the recent Twitter comments

[rosediddynorelation]

Thank you for this, something to come back in and meditate to

[itwillchange]

Brilliant. However, in this day and time i fear that his thought process is too nuanced to be digested by the masses. What to do now?

[sixeladadon]

This is was a really good watch which put a lot of things context

[uriellevelupriley]

11:27 🎯🔥🔥🔥🔥🎯11:38 This is so Great and very thorough. Honor and Love to Dr. Curry 💯✨👑✨🎙️❤️‍🔥 This analysis is so legit. Awesome interview.

[jamessheffield]

My black grandson was baptized in the church, became an acolyte, his mother joined the choir, and church women said we would like him to go to the church school with their children, so we applied for the 6th grade, and he was rejected, saying he was a behavior problem. I don't know how he could be before being in the school, but if true don't you offer some kind of help? The worse part was the silence, no one said they were sorry he was rejected, I believe it was because they knew why. I later asked one of his teachers, a white male. and his answer was we still have racism. I did get a call from the rector, not the headmaster, saying it wasn't because he was black. Again, he didn't say he was sorry he didn't get in, just don't badmouth the parish, I later send an Email with Matt 18: 6, then received a nice letter saying to change my membership. I love the Episcopal Church and want him confirmed, but don't dare risk him again. The good news that in his current school he is getting all kinds of awards. The principal just took him out for lunch the other day. To be estranged from the church and being afraid to take a grandchild to church is not pleasant. Where is the Episcopal Church welcomes you for him? Pax Christi.

[joefromdc]

It would be correct too say, feminist scholars have continually gotten a past even when history doesn't support their claims. That in itself is practicing racism at its highest

[marjoriekaye]

Seems like there is a definite guilt component in the degree of lashing out and transference from the white power structure/state to individual black men in the U.S. Great video, a lot to think about.

[actualmovement]

Brilliant (yes)! However, tagging Dr. Curry's work as "brilliant" (full stop)... is an effort below curve!
The "brilliant" global machine that his work speaks to is reinforced
by an unprecedented military apparatus functioning in purpose for the regulation of (said) "brilliance"... into academia!

Indeed, Dr Curry's "BRILLIANCE"
is (adjectively) lifting, reforming, transforming... expression "AUDACITY!" (Gvn💐Now!)👏🏾

[colinw]

24:39 Bell’s analysis is essentially Black Nationalist one. That I first heard in the late 70s and early 80s.

[notnothome]

I feel like there’s a context that he’s responding to pointed questions here that the edit may be throwing viewers off with

[jaytea]

I would love to see Dr. Curry talk to Jordan Peterson