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What I Hear When You Say

What I Hear When You Say

What I Hear When You Say

What I Hear When You Say is a video series that explores how words can both unite and divide us depending on our own perspective, experience, and interpretation. Each episode covers a different phrase or term that challenges what we think we know about race, class, gender, and identity.

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How Can You Hate Me When You Don’t Know Me?
0:46
Musician Daryl Davis seeks to understand the perspectives of the KKK.
Assumptions About Gender & Sexuality
1:14
Professor Moya Bailey explores code words and phrases used to describe LGBTQA communities.
The Manifestation of Microaggressions
1:19
Professor Pedro Noguera studies the history of coded language and its effects on all of us
A New Model of Gentrification
0:34
Journalist and Author Desiree Cooper discusses the history of gentrification in Detroit.
Racial Fluidity
0:56
Professor Ann Morning analyzes the fluidity of race across culture and time.
Equality Of Sexes
0:24
Filmmaker Jasmine Rivera discusses what it means to be a feminist today.
Oh, You’re Going to Pull the Race Card?
0:23
One woman reflects on her classroom encounter with a professor about “pulling the race car
Model Minority: A Racial Stereotype
0:54
Advocate Christopher Punongbayan’s explains how racial prejudices unfold.
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0:45
Artist Kiyun Kim explains that there are many subtle, unconscious and prejudicial comments
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0:28
What exactly does it mean to play a “race card?” Comedian Hadiyah Robinson breaks it down.
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