Bryan Warde is a licensed clinical social worker and a professor in the social work program at Lehman College and in the social welfare doctoral program at the Graduate Center. His most recent book is Colorblind: Indigenous and Black Disproportionality Across Criminal Justice Systems. In it, he addresses the phenomenon of settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black incarceration and criminal justice system disproportionality across the settler colonial states of the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the UK. In this episode, he talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications & Marketing at Lehman, about a number of related topics, including institutional vs. structural racism and higher education as a mainstay of white supremacy. To help readers and listeners get a clear picture of what’s going on – still, as it is by no means a concluded historical occurrence – Dr. Warde describes the trajectory from historical to modern day subjugation as both gatekeeping and a restriction of movement, which extends to academia. Despite these portrayals, he maintains hope for positive change and proposes solutions that are about replenishment and contributions to a community rather than about punishment, suggesting something along the lines of the processes of a tribal court.
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