a LATTO thought
a LATTO thought evaluates contemporary misperceptions about mixed raceness through the lenses of history, science studies, and personal perspectives in a way that is pro-Black, antiracist, and self-critical. The intent is to arm individuals with the clarity of how systems of law and power shape our feelings about who — not ‘what’ — we as individuals are so that we can begin to reshape the societies in which we collectively live. After all, we’re all already mixed. We’re simply taught to not see it that way.
- Update frequency
- every 42 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
a (little) LATTO: Sickle Cell Anemia
Augustín Fuentes (Prof. of Anthropology, Princeton) "joins" us again by way of a segment from his interview captured a year ago centered on the conflation between race and DNA—for that enlightening c…
a (little) LATTO: 1968
A quick check in from CA on the year to come for a LATTO thought and a sneak peek at the next feature story. // Music by Makaya McCraven and the Impressions
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In Our Blood: A People, Divided
The conclusion of a LATTO thought's first miniseries traces how Indigenous kinship has been damaged by centuries of racist and colonial American policies. Marilyn Vann (Cherokee Nation) and LeEtta Os…
a (little) LATTO: Loving Day, 2021
This Loving Day, CA reflects on the history of anti-miscegenation laws that were enforced on Filipino migrant workers as they moved further into the valleys of Southern California, as written in Alex…
In Our Blood: One Equal Citizenship
This Memorial Day will mark the 100th anniversary of one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history. But when we think back about the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, what are we …
In Our Blood: Genocide in Slow Motion
In this first chapter of a LATTO thought's first miniseries, CA attempts to contain centuries of indigenous history in order to better understand the dynamics and consequences of the United States's …
UNCUT with LeEtta Osborne-Sampson
*TRIGGER WARNING: This conversation mentions rape and suicide**
CA Davis's full interview with Seminole Councilwoman and Chief of the Caesar Bruner Band, LeEtta Osborne-Sampson.
If you would like to he…
In Our Blood
a LATTO thought's first miniseries is a deep examination and comparison of America's inversely related and foundational racial mechanisms: blood quantum and the one drop rule.
Over the next three epis…
a (little) LATTO: Kamala Harris
In this ~little~ LATTO thought, Nitasha Sharma (Northwestern University) and Kaneesha Parsard (University of Chicago) speak on the impact of Kamala Harris' presence in American politics on racial con…
kinfolk, not skinfolk
What do the 2020 US presidential election, an unending obsession with ancestry tests, and COVID19 have in common? The same thing we all have in common—99.9% in common, to be precise. Join CA as he tr…
takin' it back
Contrary to what a "postracial" America believed when Barack Obama was elected, mixed race people are older than the New World itself. Three origins—New Spain throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, …
a proper introduction...
a LATTO thought podcast evaluates contemporary beliefs about mixed raceness through the lenses of history, policy making, and personal perceptions in a way that is pro-Black, antiracist, and self-cri…
a (little) LATTO: Juneteenth, 2020
A ~little~ LATTO thought to reflect on the real end of slavery, a big step towards Black liberation, and the ripples that continue extending from it and into the future. Music by: Cyrus Chesnut and M…
a (little) LATTO: Loving Day, 2020
A ~little~ LATTO thought celebrating Loving Day during an incredibly important year of worldwide protests. Music by Makaya McCraven
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