BizzleCast 26: What is "Race"? Yarehk And Biz discuss historical, etymological, performative roots

The Bizzle and Yarehk take on one of the biggest and most difficult issues of our time: Race. What is "Race"? Yarehk and Biz discuss the historical, etymological, and performative roots of "race" and "racism." Is it real or imagined? Is academia helping or hurting our desire to move beyond race? Starting in Spain, where proto-racism developed through the persecution of the Moriscos and Conversos (converted Muslims and Jews) by the Church but was carried into New World imperialism, informing racialist notions as applied to indigenous Americans as well as the African slaves who were forcibly brought there. It’s a touchy subject but we deal with it as objectively as possible. The debate includes questions about the etymological basis of “race” and whether we can apply modern notions of identity formation to historical cultures and societies. You can reach Yarehk on Twitter @yarehk Please sign up for BizzleCast on iTunes (keyword: BizzleCast) or use the RSS feed on any podcast app: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:35604552/sounds.rss