MURFREESBORO — The
next edition of the “MTSU On the Record” radio program outlines how America’s
tortured history of racial discrimination continues to ripple through society.
Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Louis Woods, an
associate professor of history, will air from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24,
and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org).
In a paper published in “The Journal of African-American
History,” Woods details the bureaucratic policies and U.S. Supreme Court
decisions that made it almost impossible for blacks to get home loans between
1917 and 1960.
Another Woods paper, co-written with Mary Shaw-Ridley and
Charlotte A. Woods for the journal “Health Promotion Practice,” makes the
connection between systemic housing segregation and the deterioration of
African-Americans’ physical and mental health.
“If you’re trying to intervene in communities that have very
little wealth based largely on policies that they didn’t control, that happened
before some of their grandparents were alive, but still resonate within their
family and their conditions, it’s very difficult … to argue to them that they
just need to walk more,” Woods said.
To listen to previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, go to http://www.mtsunews.com/ontherecord/.
For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or
WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.
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