Black Ethnics
Christina Greer, assistant professor of political science at Fordham University (Lincoln Center), and author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford...
View ArticleNot Quite Post-Racial, New York Politics Is Still Tribal
In the Democratic primary race for mayor, Bill De Blasio won over more black voters than the black candidate, Bill Thompson, and more gay and lesbian voters than Christine Quinn, who is a lesbian. Are...
View ArticleMiss America's Haters Meet Their Match
The Miss America pageant has little social relevance these days: the broadcast got 34 million viewers in 1988, but only about three million in recent years. And unless someone says something really...
View ArticleMICROPOLIS: Are Ethnic Enclaves Bad for Immigrants?
Ethnic enclaves are among the jewels of New York — places where the city's immigrants can ease their way into American life while holding onto aspects of the old country. And of course, for outsiders,...
View ArticleAasif Mandvi: Hyphenated Identity
This segment originally aired live on November 4th, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on November 28th. The unedited audio can be found here. Aasif...
View Article'Fresh Off the Boat' and the Burden of the Ethnic Sitcom
ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat," based on Eddie Huang's memoir of the same name, premiered last week on a wave of hype. This is the first Asian-American sitcom since Margaret Cho's "All American Girl." What...
View ArticleState of the Re:Union: San Gabriel Valley, CA: Small Town, Global City
The San Gabriel Valley is just like any other suburb in America. Life revolves around family and school; the social fabric is woven over cheap eats at the mall. But unlike most suburbs in America, the...
View ArticleIs All Hope Lost this Election Season?
So far we’ve dealt with the negative emotions that are shaping this election season – frustration, fear and doubt – but now we’re talking about hope. Are you feeling at all optimistic or hopeful about...
View Article#AskTheMayor; How Isolationist Should America Be; Building Multiethnic...
Coming up on today's show:Mayor Bill de Blasio takes your calls and discusses the latest city news.Alphonso David, the counsel to the governor, explains Cuomo's executive order prohibiting the state...
View ArticleWhen NYC School Segregation Gets Personal
While reporting on de facto school segregation in the U.S., New York Times Magazine staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones had to find a school for her own daughter in NYC.She spoke about the candid...
View ArticleTeju Cole on Art, Politics and Black Lives Matter
Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole discusses his latest essay collection, Known and Strange Things, covering politics, art, travel, history and literature. His writings include...
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Not Just 'Other': How the U.S. Census Is Rethinking the Race Question
On the official U.S. Census, the question about race has five main choices, a "two or more" option, and simply, "Other." That last category was meant to capture a small, residual population of people...
View ArticleHow the CIA Can Hack Smartphones; GOP Forges Ahead With AHCA; Not Just an...
Coming up on today's show:Jenna McLaughlin, covers surveillance and national security for The Intercept, previously covered national security and foreign policy at Mother Jones, discusses WikiLeaks'...
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Not Just 'Other' Anymore in the U.S. Census
In preparation for the 2020 census, the U.S. Census Bureau has been re-thinking how it asks people to categorize themselves in its question about race and ethnicity.The race question on the official...
View ArticleUnderstanding Race and Racism, One Conversation at a Time
Happy Fourth of July from The Takeaway. As the United States celebrates its independence, we’re reflecting on what it means to be American. In this special episode, we’re bringing you tough...
View ArticleSouth Asian (Mis)Representations Onscreen
In the romcom, "The Big Sick," Pakistani comic Kumail (played by Kumail Nanjiani) falls in love with Emily, (played by Zoe Kazan) who is white. The movie tells the story of Nanjiani's real life...
View Article#135 White Guilt and Other Crazy Sh*t
This week we are continuing our conversation on how to talk to kids about race and racism, especially when you’re uncomfortable talking about it with grown ups. Writer Eula Biss joins us to help us...
View ArticleAl Letson Reveals: The fight to end affirmative action in higher education
President Trump’s Department of Justice is investigating claims that Harvard is discriminating against Asian American students in its admissions program. Harvard has been accused of capping the number...
View ArticleHow Does Your Name Influence Your Identity?
Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, psychology professor at the University of Oregon, discusses his article for Psychology Today, “What’s In a Name?,” which looks at the impact of having an “Anglo” name as an...
View ArticleRacial Politics and Latinx History
Laura Gómez, professor of law, sociology and Chicana/o studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, Second...
View ArticleAmy Chua on the Question of American Identity
Amy Chua discusses her new book Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. Chua argues that America tends to view people as being defined by their nationhood rather than other group...
View ArticleTrumping Hate
There’s been a lot of conversation about whether Donald Trump has inspired a new wave of hate in America.Reveal reporter Will Carless set out to understand the president’s role in hundreds of hate...
View ArticleDavid Coven, Terin Dickerson, and David Lepelstat
David Coven hears a poem that sticks with him for life. Terin Dickerson nurtures his art through a living canvas. David Lepelstat is convinced of his superhero powers until they get him into a deadly...
View ArticleVera Farmiga & Peter Fonda Take a Road Trip, Fatima Farheen Mirza's Breakout...
Shana Feste, Vera Farmiga, and Peter Fonda discuss their comedic family road trip film, Boundaries. Fatima Farheen Mirza explores family dynamics at an Indian-American wedding in A Place for Us: A...
View ArticleWhat's in a Name? 'Always Anjali' Finds Out
Actress and author Sheetal Sheth discusses her new children’s book,Always Anjali, which encourages pride in being different and embracing the things that make us culturally unique.This segment is guest...
View ArticleAn Intimate Portrait of Forbidden Love
Crystal Hana Kim discusses If You Leave Me: A Novel. An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love, the book focuses on two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the choices they’re...
View ArticleThe 3M Reckoning, Fly Girls that Made History, Love in Wartime
Sharon Lerner discusses what 3M knew and kept secret about PFAS chemicals since the 1970s. Keith O’Brien talks about female pilots that broke glass ceilings and defied the odds. Crystal Hana Kim talks...
View ArticleOur Hair, Our Stories
Rohina Hoffman, fine art photographer, neurologist and author of Hair Stories (Damiani, 2019), explores the significance of women's hair through her art and interviews with women of varying ages and...
View ArticleIs Race Science Making a Comeback?
With the European intellectual movement, there was a heightened interest to interpret the world around us. Scientists of the 18th century sought a way to categorize and objectively understand the...
View Article3. Brittany Packnett Cunningham on Activism in Crisis
Rebecca Carroll talks to activist and organizer Brittany Packnett Cunningham on the small and big ways we can live in community during the coronavirus pandemic -- even though we’re forced to be apart....
View Article4. Issa Rae is Still Rooting for Everybody Black
As usual, Issa Rae is out here doing the most. She joins Rebecca Carroll to talk about the return of Insecure, how she’s supporting the next generation of black artists, and why black audiences matter...
View ArticleIntroducing Come Through with Rebecca Carroll Featuring Issa Rae
Hey SMWGers! WNYC Studios has a new show you might like! It's called Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 Essential Conversations About Race in a Pivotal Year for America. In this episode, Rebecca is...
View Article5. Robin DiAngelo Wants to Be a Little Less White
Author and educator Robin DiAngelo wants white people to ask themselves “What does it mean to be white?” Her bestselling book White Fragility lays out the many ways white people both reinforce and...
View Article6. Jeff Yang on the Hard Work of Allyship
Journalist Jeff Yang was stunned after experiencing a racist attack at the grocery store. Now, he’s finding himself asking some tough questions about what allyship looks like in the age of Covid-19. He...
View Article7. Walter Mosley Believes in Freedom of Speech. Period.
Does Freedom of Speech have limits in the workplace? Walter Mosley was working as a writer on a TV show. One day, in the writers' room, he shared with his colleagues the story of his disturbing...
View Article8. Elie Mystal: Call It a Lynching
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was jogging in his suburban neighborhood when two white men, a father and son, decided Arbery might be the culprit of a suspected robbery. They got in their truck,...
View Article9. Bassey Ikpi Didn’t Enter the World Broken
Author Bassey Ikpi always struggled with a certain kind of heaviness and worry growing up. In 2004, she was able to put a name to those feelings when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She joins...
View Article10. Don Lemon is a Soldier for The Army of Truth
Over the past several years, we’ve watched Don Lemon go from a semi-conservative broadcast journalist to an emotionally expressive, openly opinionated public figure. The CNN anchor has even drawn the...
View Article11. Gabrielle Union is Raising Black Daughters and Learning As She Goes
Gabrielle Union is a force. But before she became an actress, activist, and businesswoman, Gabrielle was a Black girl from Omaha trying to find Black community, belonging, and love in a largely white...
View Article12. Ava DuVernay Takes Us Online, Desmond Meade Leads Us to Vote
Ava DuVernay was a young teenager when she went to a U2 concert and encountered a flier for Amnesty International that changed her life. She tells host Rebecca Carroll, "it was just that little piece...
View Article13. Waubgeshig Rice Saw This Apocalypse Coming
Waubgeshig Rice is a Canadian journalist and bestselling author (Moon of the Crusted Snow) from the Wasauksing First Nation, who grew up in an Anishinaabe community. He hopes COVID will be a wake-up...
View Article14. Ira Madison III Keeps It, Kay Oyegun Gives It
As a struggling screenwriter, Twitter was exactly what Ira Madison III needed to get noticed. More than 200k followers later, he’s writing for Netflix (“Daybreak” and the upcoming “Q-Force”). He tells...
View Article15. Julián Castro's Common Census
Julián Castro served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas before joining the Obama administration as housing secretary. And he was briefly in the race for president, the only Latinx candidate in the 2020...
View ArticleIs Race Science Coming Back?
With the European intellectual movement, there was a heightened interest to interpret the world around us. Scientists of the 18th century sought a way to categorize and objectively understand the...
View ArticleInventing Latinos
On the 2020 U.S. census, Americans faced five options: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. These might have...
View ArticleReckoning With the History of Eugenics
Jack Tchen, professor of Public History & Humanities and director at the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University Newark and Cara Page,...
View ArticleI Was A Child of Dread
In a new memoir, How to Say Babylon: A Memoir, the award-winning poet and essayist is revisiting her youth as a Rastafari girl. Being Rasta is about so much more than what shows up in American pop...
View ArticleThe View From Gaza
How can we have a more honest conversation about security, war, and peace in the region? As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens, we ask two scholars with ties to the region for help.Kai is joined...
View Article‘It’s Worse Than Ever’
The events of October 7th shook the world and greatly impacted different intersections of people. Arab Americans sit at a unique intersection. As an Arab American journalist, Notes From America...
View ArticleI Was A Child of Dread
In Safiya Sinclair’s new memoir, “How to Say Babylon: A Memoir,” the award-winning poet and essayist is revisiting her youth as a Rastafari girl. Being Rasta is about so much more than what shows up in...
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