Special double episode
VIENNA, AUSTRIA: Imagine you’re walking down the hall of a prestigious university. Your steps betray the confidence of having earned it all: a doctorate, a high-ranking place in the scholarly paper citation index and, recently, that university’s chair of musicology.
As you arrive at your office door, a man runs up to you. He notifies you that a drink was spilled down the hall and needs to be cleaned up. You look at him quizzically and, unconsciously pointing out your non-whiteness, he responds, aren’t you the janitor?
Such a situation may sound unusual - even comical – yet is a common experience among non-white academics.
Musicologists Philip Ewell (Hunter College) and Julio Mendívil (University of Vienna) join us to present a phenomenon of racism that doesn’t stop at a non-white professor’s office door.
Ethnomusicologist Julio Mendívil, Chair of Ethnomusicology at University of Vienna is interviewed about how to fight systematic racism in academia.
In this inspiring video, jazz pianist Omar Sosa tells us how he chooses musicians. The most important information, he gets by sharing a meal with...