In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams discusses racism and resistance in the digital age with Dr. Rob Eschmann. Williams is Director of the Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Eschmann is a writer, scholar, filmmaker, and educator from Chicago and Associate Professor of Social Work and a member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University; and Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Eschmann’s book When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Global Digital Age (University of California Press, 2023) discusses the changing nature of racism in interpersonal encounters and online. Drawing on a wealth of data using a mixed methods approach, he demonstrates in his text how the new media impacts race and racism in society. His website with more information about his book and work can be found here: Rob Eschmann click for details.