The Woke Reformation: Antiracism and Critical Race Theory
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: The Woke Reformation with Brown and Drayton
2:55 – Why the series is premiering on Locals
7:11 – How Travis and Corey met
10:43 – Political lectures on film sets
14:01 – Self-righteousness: from church to wokeness
17:07 – Corey on racial identity and never having a black friend
21:07 – Essentialism and the content of our character
24:10 – Black culture in the 80s and 90s
27:07 – Punk rock, Avery Brooks, and great musicians
30:37 – Asra Nomani and the CRT reader
34:02 – The appeal of academic jargon
36:38 – Encountering postmodernism in film school
41:20 – Contemporary art films that look like garbage
44:04 – Sowell's constrained and unconstrained visions
47:09 – Deconstruction as a luxury on set
52:06 – What Corey would do as a parent
56:21 – What The Woke Reformation hopes to do
59:07 – A culture of narcissism
1:02:37 – Wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Travis Brown and Corey Drayton, the duo behind the docu-series The Woke Reformation, join Lou to talk about antiracism, Critical Race Theory, and how self-righteousness moved from church to wokeness.
We also get into why the series premiered on Locals, political lectures on film sets, Corey on racial identity and never having a black friend, essentialism and the content of our character, punk rock and Avery Brooks, Asra Nomani and the CRT reader, the appeal of academic jargon, postmodernism in film school, Sowell's constrained and unconstrained visions, and a culture of narcissism.