This episode explores the reproduction of racism through silence and the restriction of knowledge and information by looking at the pop culture film Fight Club and the famous tagline: "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club."
Key words: Racism, White Supremacy, Fight Club (book and film), Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher, White Males, Black Males, Ed Guerrero, Framing Blackness, Rebel without A Cause (film), James Dean, Law Enforcement, “Race Card,” Catchphrases, Coded Language, The Southern Strategy, H. Lee Atwater, Neoliberalism, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, Ian F. Haney-Lopez, Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment, Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas, Twenty Years of Critical Race Theory: Looking Back To Move Forward , Kimberlé Crenshaw, Abstract Speech, Angie Maxwell, Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, Haile Gerima, Adwa—An African Victory (film).
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Correction: Episode 24 is "#WhenRacistsMislabelThings: The Myths Surrounding Critical Race Theory."
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