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The Discourse with Dr. Shea is a podcast where storytelling meets scholarship, bridging knowledge, culture, and lived experience. Hosted by Dr. Shea, the show offers honest conversations and critical reflection at the intersections of race, power, identity, and institutions, with a particular focus on higher education.
This podcast examines higher education not as it is marketed, but as it is lived, especially by Black professionals navigating systems that were never built to protect them, yet continue to depend on their labor.
Drawing from Critical Race Theory, institutional analysis, and lived experience, The Discourse names patterns of power, silence, and control while creating space for clarity, reflection, and truth-telling.
Episodes include solo reflections and guided conversations that connect scholarship to everyday realities, inviting listeners to move beyond survival toward understanding and transformation.
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Scholar-Practitioner Voice, Black Experience, and the Current State of Higher Education (Part 2)
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May 02, 2026 |
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Scholar-Practitioner Voice, Black Experience, and the Current State of Higher Education (Part 1)
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May 02, 2026 |
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Still on the Plantation: The Dear Colleague Letter and the Restructuring of Higher Education
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Mechanisms of Control: How Higher Education Maintains Power
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Respectability, Gratitude, and Institutional Gaslighting
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Proximity, Protection, and Power: White Womanhood in Higher Education
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Counterstory: When the Rules Change but the Outcome Doesn’t
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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The System Wasn't Built for Us
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Professionalism, Tokenism, and the Cost of Belonging
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Why Truth-Telling in Higher Education Matters
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Feb 17, 2026 |