Dr. Chi’s Salon

This is the second part of my Interview with Dr. Grace Jung, comedian, poet, filmmaker,  and more. She wrote her PhD dissertation about Korean variety shows in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA (fellow Bruin!).     In this episode, we discuss Korean variety shows as all-male spaces with queer potential, translating Korean hangul into Roman letters (I say it's a Korean "alphabet" but it's more like...

I chat with Dr. Kayla Preito-Hodge (Rutgers University-Camden) about her forthcoming book on Black police officers and how they navigate being Black with being on the force.   We discussed her findings from conducting interviews with 50 Black police officers in a major city. She explained how they navigated being Black with being an officer, the racism they experience on the job, Derek C...

Dr. Grace Jung does all of the things. She's a professional comedian, poet, filmmaker,  and so much more. She wrote her PhD dissertation in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA about Korean media and is in the process of turning it into a book. We talked about so many things that I have to cut it into two episodes!  In this episode, we discuss Kim Seon-ho of Hometown Cha Cha Cha and Start-up...

This is part 2 of my discussion with Tamara Walker, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. We discuss her trajectory of becoming a historian and doing research in Argentina and Peru as a Black woman. I'm wearing a bonnet because they need more love and so do Black women. We discuss how Peruvian enslavers forced their slaves to wear nice clothes, defying sumptuary laws in colo...

Welcome to Season 2 of Getting Woke with Dr. Chi! In this episode, I chat with my friend Tamara Walker, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. We talk about Moni'que's disdain for the bonnet, how she uses the housewives shows to stay sane in academia, and she gives advice to future history PhDs. We giggle and cackle a lot! This is our first of two episodes in which I ask her...

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Welcome to the last episode of the season! I discuss conversations about interracial marriage and race mixture on Clubhouse, how Afrodescendants became White through "the one-drop rule"  in the US South, England, and France. I also discuss an interesting finding from the book The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood by Grace Kao, Ka...

This episode is about UNC's racist denial of tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, how Cosby was released, and how Howard University is a thread linking the two recent news stories.

This episode is about my time going on vacation in a time of Covid-19 as well as my reaction to Britney Spears court battle with her daddy and what it means about women controlling their fertility. I also discuss the new drama, Nevertheless airing on Netflix and how it handles female desire.

This episode was recorded before my vacation. I hope that you find this discussion about Prince Harry and Megan Markle‘s newborn baby girl and the racist backlash against the little one, President Trump’s clothing and diaper-wearing, and threats to democracy everywhere.

I took a break from podcasting to catch up on end of the semester grading and administrative work. Sorry! In this episode, I discuss Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield's book, Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy. I also discuss anti-African sentiment, bad Nigerian food as retribution for dissing someone, and the toll of teaching college classes in a pandemic. Flatlining: https://www....

This is the second part of the first of many Sister Sessions with Tamara Walker and Funke Aladajebi -- both at the University of Toronto -- about the joys, challenges, and pitfalls of traveling while Black. In this second segment, we talk about our responsibilities and privileges as Blacks traveling in the pandemic as well as facing anti-Blackness while abroad. A special thanks to Tamara and the m...

In our first of many Sister Sessions, Tamara Walker, a history professor at the University of Toronto, and I chat with Funke Aladajebi -- also at the University of Toronto -- about the joys, challenges, and pitfalls of traveling while Black. In this first segment, we talk Western privilege, drama in Bali for LGBTQ+ African Americans, as well as the positive aspects of being Black. A special thanks...

I discuss the case of the police officer who murdered George Floyd and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in light of the recent situation with the Atlanta murderer who killed 8 people, attacking them at Asian massage parlors. I share thoughts on how to fight back on an individual level. Info on bystander training: https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/ Follow me on Twitter @chinyereosu...

I discuss the meaning of Coming 2 America, the sequel to the original Coming to America, in light of rape culture, patriarchy, and anti-Africaness. I also offer my review of the drama Mr. Queen, touching on its conservative portrayal of gender and sexuality for a Western audience.

I discuss my forays into learning languages, Nigerian culture, and why language matters in a pandemic.

These are my thoughts on the interview that Oprah did with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Was racism a factor? Was she being naive? Listen to find out!

In this episode, I discuss experiencing a Chicago winter, President Biden pushing forward an immigration bill, the Nollywood meets Bollywood film "Namaste Wahala," and the critically acclaimed film "Malcolm and Marie."

In this episode, I discuss why I got the Covid-19 vaccine despite having the illness in December. I also talk about my father's transiion from being a vaccine skeptic, memories of other illnesses that decimated populations, and my reaction to the vaccine. This episode also covers Chad Wheeler's case of IPV against his girlfriend, the NBA response and sociological research on violence in interracia...

In this episode, I discuss my concern as an American watching fellow Americans travel to Mexico to avoid the pandemic and how Mexico now has the 3rd highest Covid-19 rates in the world (surpassing India with it's population of 1.4 billion!).

In this episode, I share my summary of a sociology research article written by Jenni Mueller called "Producing Colorblindness: Everyday Mechanisms of White Ignorance" published in the journal "Social Problems." It investigated how White college students in Mueller's class studying racial inequality applied what they had learned about the unearned privileges of whiteness to their lives, ancestors,...

I discuss my experiences with Covid-19, how I had prepped beforehand for just in case I got it, and how the kdrama Search: WWW made life a little easier.

I discuss terrorists Americans storming The Capitol in an attempted coup as well as the Georgia elections. I also discuss watching Bridgerton on Netflix.

Hilaria Baldwin somehow managed to get everybody to think that she was from Spain, including the Spanish! In this episode I discuss the humor of a White woman colonizing the colonizers.