{"id":12538,"date":"2017-12-12T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:22:22","slug":"whos-blacker-oprah-or-sojourner-truth%e2%80%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2017\/12\/whos-blacker-oprah-or-sojourner-truth%e2%80%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Blacker: Oprah or Sojourner Truth?\u2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Assistant Professor of Sociology Prentiss Dantzler and his Inequality in the U.S. class recently were featured in a segment titled \u201cPlaying the Race Cards\u201d on The Nod, a podcast centered around different dimensions of black life. The podcast includes interviews with Dantzler and several students in his Block 1 class, who played the card game Trading Races, in which players are asked to argue the case for what makes one person blacker than another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI knew the game was going to make the class uncomfortable,\u201d says Dantzler. \u201cHowever,<br \/>\nI have a unique advantage to discuss race freely given my own identity. Yet, at times, I too, feel uncomfortable. The beauty in using a game like this is that we can all come together to think critically about our own assumptions and our biases. We can dig deeper to find out why we think the way we think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Reporting from Dantzler\u2019s class was done by 91.5 KRCC\u2019s <b>Jake Brownell \u201912<\/b>, who also assisted with the production work. The podcast can be heard at <a href=\"https:\/\/2cc.co\/race-cards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2cc.co\/race-cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Sociology Prentiss Dantzler and his Inequality in the U.S. class recently were featured in a segment titled \u201cPlaying the Race Cards\u201d on The Nod, a podcast centered around different dimensions of black life. The podcast includes interviews with Dantzler and several students in his Block 1 class, who played the card game&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":12513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-12538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2017","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2017\/12\/CC-BUL-WIN17-06-NewsDantzlerClass.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12806,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions\/12806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}