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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C.​O.​W.​S. w/ Dr. Wayne A. Weigand: White Supremacy in US Public Libraries📚
Description: The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand. A White man, historian and author, we’ll discuss Dr. Wiegand’s 2024 publication, In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries. The text does a masterful job detailing the history of White people controlling what books are in public libraries, if black people have access to those libraries, and if black people will be allowed to work in a book conservatory. Many core counter-racist principles are on display in this text as well as the years of deliberate White Supremacy that explain why black people have a cu...