*Artwork by Grupo Opni (São Paulo, Brazil)
Interviews
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Part I: "The Fallout of Police Violence is Killing Black Women Like Erica Garner" - Democracy Now! January 11, 2018
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Part II: Extended Interview: Christen Smith on How Trauma from Police Violence Is Killing Black Women
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The tragic death of Erica Garner, Eric Garner's daughter on December 30, 2017 was a heartbreaking reminder of the deadly impact that police violence has on the families of the dead. On January 11, 2018, I did an interview with Democracy Now! about my research on sequelae: the lingering and lethal impact that police violence has on the communities of the dead, particularly Black women. That interview (Part I) and the extended interview (Part II) are linked above. Both are follow-ups to the op-ed that I wrote in The Conversation about Erica Garner's death and the urgent need to address the ways that trauma and sadness are killing Black women in the wake of police violence.
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Police Violence and Black Women's Health Part I
As a follow up to my piece on Erica Garner, I did a 2-part podcast with Imani Evans at the Hogg Foundation looking at police violence and Black women's health. This conversation took us from the national crisis in police violence all the way back home to Austin, TX and the challenges the Black community faces there. |
Police Violence and Black Women's Health Part II - Hogg Foundation
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#BRAZILFREEDOMSCHOOL
During the Opening Ceremonies of the Rio Olympics 2016 I began tweeting about the hidden anti-black violence that was undergirding teh world's enjoyment of the games. The result was the hashtag #BrazilFreedomSchool, a virtual classroom discussion about the history and contemporary realities of anti-black violence in Brazil. We kept the conversation going throughout the games and several colleagues includeing Wendi Muse, Ugo Edo, Erica Williams and Scott Barton joined the conversation with #BlackBrazilSyllabus.
Nina Ainembabazi (@thatgirlneez) graciously created several storify boards for #BlackBrazilSyllabus by theme. Check them out here. Also, Later that summer, Yesenia Baragan of AAIHS conducted this interview with me on the project: "#BrazilFreedomSchool, Anti-Black Violence and the Rio Olympics - An Intervew with Christen Smith"
During the Opening Ceremonies of the Rio Olympics 2016 I began tweeting about the hidden anti-black violence that was undergirding teh world's enjoyment of the games. The result was the hashtag #BrazilFreedomSchool, a virtual classroom discussion about the history and contemporary realities of anti-black violence in Brazil. We kept the conversation going throughout the games and several colleagues includeing Wendi Muse, Ugo Edo, Erica Williams and Scott Barton joined the conversation with #BlackBrazilSyllabus.
Nina Ainembabazi (@thatgirlneez) graciously created several storify boards for #BlackBrazilSyllabus by theme. Check them out here. Also, Later that summer, Yesenia Baragan of AAIHS conducted this interview with me on the project: "#BrazilFreedomSchool, Anti-Black Violence and the Rio Olympics - An Intervew with Christen Smith"
On July 14, 2016 I joined the Texas Observer for a rountable discussion on BlackLivesMatter in the aftermath of the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and Dallas, with Dr. Peniel Joseph and Fatima Mann of the Austin Justice Coalition.
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"Slow Death" Interview with South African radio station PowerFM 98.7, July 12 2016, that follows up on my piece "Slow death: Is the trauma of police violence killing black women?" in The Conversation. Conversation focuses on the long-term, deadly effects of police violence on black women.
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"Sorrow as Artifact" - As guest editor for the April 2016 issue of Transforming Anthropology (24), I had the honor of recording the inaugural podcast for the journal. The conversation is reflection on the politics and poetics of radical Black mothering in times of terror. Born from a panel for the American Anthropological Association Meeting in 2014, that included Riché Barnes, Dana Ain-Davis, Luciane Rocha, Cheryl Rodriguez and Rhaisa Williams, the panel occurred on the morning after the Eric Garner non-indictment verdict, providing a place of healing for many grieving the perverse injustice of that tragedy."Sorrow as Artifact" is a reflection on the gendered, racial politics of mourning and resistance in a moment when #BlackLivesMatter is the political touchstone of our generation. We also discuss my book, Afro-Paradise, Beyoncé and the stakes of activist scholarship.
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Dialogue on Satire, Islamaphobia and Racism on Middle East in Focus (KPFK, Southern California), January 18, 2015
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Protest against Anti-Muslim bigotry. From Fight Back! News
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Conversation with Sonali Kolhatkar on "Uprising with Sonali", January 12, 2015. Here I discuss the controversy surrounding the #CharlieHebdo cartoons and the troubled history and politics of racist political cartoons.
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Conversation with Asia-Pacific Forum (APF WBAI 99.5), "#JeNeSuisPasCharlie and the politics of violence and representation"
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"Do black female victims get less attention?" - BBC World Have Your Say, May 6 2014
This is an interview that I did with BBC World Have Your Say in response to my article, "For Claudia Silva Ferreira: Death and The Collective Black Female Body" in The Feminist Wire. In it, I discuss the case of Claudia Silva, the 38-year-old black mother from Rio de Janeiro who was dragged to death behind a Rio police car and its relationship to the Boko Haram abduction of the school girls in Nigeria.
This is an interview that I did with BBC World Have Your Say in response to my article, "For Claudia Silva Ferreira: Death and The Collective Black Female Body" in The Feminist Wire. In it, I discuss the case of Claudia Silva, the 38-year-old black mother from Rio de Janeiro who was dragged to death behind a Rio police car and its relationship to the Boko Haram abduction of the school girls in Nigeria.
"Genocidio do povo negro", Caros Amigos, essay edition 210, September 2014
In August 2014 journalist Lena Azevedo sat down to talk with me and Andreia Beatriz dos Santos, co-coordinator of the React or Die! campaign in Brazil (Reaja ou Será Morto) about the II (Inter)National March Against the Genocide of Black People, and black women's leadership in the movement against anti-black genocide in Brazil. The interview was published in a special issue of the Brazilian leftist magazine Caros Amigos. The full text is not available online but you can find the link to the special issue here (in Portuguese).
In August 2014 journalist Lena Azevedo sat down to talk with me and Andreia Beatriz dos Santos, co-coordinator of the React or Die! campaign in Brazil (Reaja ou Será Morto) about the II (Inter)National March Against the Genocide of Black People, and black women's leadership in the movement against anti-black genocide in Brazil. The interview was published in a special issue of the Brazilian leftist magazine Caros Amigos. The full text is not available online but you can find the link to the special issue here (in Portuguese).
"Violence Against Women in Latin America", Latin American Perspectives Podcast
*This was a conversation that Latin American Perspectives produced in connection with the journal's special issue Violence Against Women in Latin America. My article "Putting Prostitutes in Their Place" appears in this issue. In it I discuss the case of the domestic worker, Sirlei Carvalho, who was brutally beaten at a bus stop in Rio de Janeiro.
*This was a conversation that Latin American Perspectives produced in connection with the journal's special issue Violence Against Women in Latin America. My article "Putting Prostitutes in Their Place" appears in this issue. In it I discuss the case of the domestic worker, Sirlei Carvalho, who was brutally beaten at a bus stop in Rio de Janeiro.