Ep. 1 - Black & Brown Representation in Media

PODCAST OVERVIEW


SoapBox Productions and Organizing's affiliate podcast pairs
critical analyses of media, culture, politics, and everyday
happenings with the tastiest of spirits. With a Chicago focus,
BrownTown (friends and colleagues Caullen Hudson and David A.
Moran) unpacks current events, social issues, and gives personal
insight into various topics with the occasional help of the most
talented and creative activists, artists, filmmakers, academics,
and social entrepreneurs. Find more at SoapBoxPO.com/Podcast.
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EPISODE OVERVIEW


In the inaugural episode of BrownTown's first ever podcast, we
begin with the opening song to the pilot episode of
Atlanta, Donald Glover's (AKA Childish Gambino) new series
on FX. Caullen and David of BrownTown deliver a critical analysis
on the comedy-drama that succeeds in exploring everything from
mass incarceration, mental health, Black identity, to the sexual
landscape all within the first two episodes without really even
trying. The nuanced, character-driven nearly all-Black show,
which premiered in fall 2016 sets the tone for the explosion of
breakout Black films Moonlight and Get
Out that followed in 2017. The recent Star
Wars films are also a topic of discussion as their
diverse cast among ethnic and gender lines has made actual white
supremacists upset (...tear). With Moonlight,
BrownTown briefly touches on the complexities of toxic
masculinity amongst men of color (noting, of course, The
Boondocks). Furthermore, we take our sights to critique the
credit given by the white mainstream from instances like the
Oscars Best Picture fiasco to a VOX video on late night
comedian's satirical coverage of the Trump Administration, which
somehow ignores Trevor Noah, Black South African host of the
21-year running Daily Show on Comedy Central. Four months
into 2017, we continue to see the media landscape as an
ever-evolving social ecology of paradoxical relationship between
the problematic systems of the past and the progressive ideals of
the future.


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CREDITS: Intro/outro music - "No Hook" by OJ Da
Juiceman from FX's Atlanta season one. Audio engineered by
Genta Tamashiro. Episode art and Bourbon 'n BrownTown logo by
Desirae Gladden.


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