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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 conversation, check out the episode "kinfolk, not skinfolk." However, in this segment, Augustín helps dispel another, related half-truth: the myth that sickle cell anemia is a racial genetic trait. // Music by Makaya McCraven Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

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 Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

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 Osborne-Sampson (Seminole Nation) share the painful fight that the descendents of Indigenous Freedmen have waged for civil rights within their own nations. Genocide in slow motion and the lack of one equal citizenship created a zero sum game that, left a people—a family—divided. But... that may not be the case for much longer. Donate to the Seminole Freedmen legal fund: Checks made out to Attorney John Parris mailed to:Caesar Bruner BandPO Box 300175Oklahoma City, 73140African Indians FoundationPO Box 42452Oklahoma City, 73123(make a note it's for the Seminole Freedmen court case)Paypal: Marilyn Vann's Freedmen Association,  mkvann@africanindians.org (make a note that  it's for the Seminole Freedmen court case)Chickasaw and Choctaw Freedmen Twitter and Instagram accountsMusic provided by Dawn Avery, Makaya McCraven, and APM Music.  Supported by TechRewire. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

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 S. Fabros Jr's (former Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University) article "When Hilario Met Sally." // Music by Makaya McCraven from his albums Universal Beings and Universal Beings E&F Sides. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

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 missing? The inspiring and heartbreaking story of the fabled Black Main Street is indeed unique, but not because of the devastation that Black folks survived and rebuilt from its ashes. The second chapter of "In Our Blood" reveals that what set Greenwood apart from the rest of the nation—along with over fifty Black towns established in Oklahoma from 1865 to 1920—was the collision of the one drop rule and blood quantum. // Music provided by Kristina Sharpe, Dawn Avery, Makaya McCraven, and APM Music.  Supported by TechRewire. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

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 concept of blood quantum — the racial calculus that led to Indigenous detribalization, land infringement, and how it began to collide with Jim Crow's antiblack one drop rule. Music by Dawn Avery and Makaya McCraven // Support the show! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

*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 help the Seminole Freedmen's fight to regain their full rights within their nation, feel free to send donations by...Checks made out to Attorney John Parris mailed to:Caesar Bruner BandPO Box 300175Oklahoma City, 73140 African Indians FoundationPO Box 42452Oklahoma City, 73123 (make a note it's for the Seminole Freedmen court case) Paypal: Marilyn Vann's Freedmen Association,  mkvann@africanindians.org (make a note that  it's for the Seminole Freedmen court case)If you'd like to hear more Uncut interviews, consider signing up to become a LATTO thought Patreon patron. All proceeds go towards paying for additional music, editing, website and Buzzsprout hosting, and sound effects. You'll have access to content like this and more!Music by Makaya McCraven Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

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 episodes, guests Kim TallBear (University of Alberta),  Guy Emerson Mount (Auburn University), Doug Kiel (Northwestern University), Marilyn Vann (Founder and President of the Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes Association), independent scholar Darnella Davis, Ariela Gross USC Gould School of Law), Zebulon Miletsky (Stony Brook University), Court Wheeler (grandson of Deputy Chief Perry Wheeler), and more will discuss the ways that a white supremacist federal nation racialized Native and Black bodies for different ends of domination. Stay tuned for ... In Our BloodSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought)

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 consciousness, nonwhite mixed ancestry, creole nationalism, and Asian indentureship in American and Caribbean history. Music by Makaya McCraven.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought)

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 traces the long winding thread that misleads us to believe that race is determined by DNA. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

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, the Virginian Commonwealth in 1655, and Africa's Gold Coast at the start of the transatlantic slave trade—reveal how the concept of race was constructed in the name of empire, which birthed the very idea of "mixing" races. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

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-critical. The intent is to arm listeners 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. Each episode asks a question about contemporary mixed race issues, misperceptions, and pop culture. Those questions are answered by academics, artists, and activists, whose voices are woven together with sound effects, music, and personal experiences. Subscribe today to keep up with new episodes at lattothought.com today. Music in this teaser provided by: Makaya McCraven.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought)

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 Makaya McCraven Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr

A ~little~ LATTO thought celebrating Loving Day during an incredibly important year of worldwide protests. Music by Makaya McCraven Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/alattothought) Use my special link https://zen.ai/alattothought and use alattothought  to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastr