Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy — How Crisis Teaches Us What to See

Crisis in Perception · Oct 4, 2026 · 34m

A crisis can expose more than failing institutions. It can reveal the systems that teach people how to understand those failures.

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Using Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy by Henry A. Giroux as our lens, this episode investigates Giroux’s argument that Covid-19 was not simply a medical emergency. It also became a political, racial, economic, and educational crisis through which struggles over power, responsibility, knowledge, and democratic agency became unusually visible.

Giroux describes this process through…