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#RaceClass
by #RaceClass
An award-winning series about race and racism with Boston University law professor Jonathan Feingold & WNHN host Arnie Arnesen.Special thanks to WNHN and producers Stephanie Collins and Dave Scott.
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Ep. 72 | Rahim Kurwa Talks Policing, Housing & White Supremacy in the Antelope Valley
Sociologist Rahim Kurwa discusses his new book "Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing." The book documents decades of antiblack racism and white supremacy in the Antelope Valley -- Los Angeles County's northern outpost. Professor Kurwa traces the Antelope Valley's evolution...
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Ep. 71 | Both-sides-ing Fascism & a NH Tech Lord Takeover?
"We openly support the assassination of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire." So posted the New Hampshire Libertarian Party on X earlier this week. Arnie and Jon discuss how the likely person behind that post is embedded within the fabric of NH's rightwing ecosystem extending to the...
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Ep. 70 | Thomas Zimmer On The Links that Bind AfD & Today's Republican Party
German historian Thomas Zimmer joins the #RaceClass Podcast for a deep dive into AfD (Germany's neo-Nazi party), the links that bind AfD and MAGA, and what looking to Germany can teach us about the United States. We discuss the broad failure of liberal and centrist scholars and institutions to...
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Ep. 69 | Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Talks Jason Arday, Tyler Austin Harper and Leading with Integrity
Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig joins the #RaceClass Podcast for a wide ranging conversation about familial ancestry, the Jason Arday tragedy, Tyler Austin Harper's appeal to white liberals, Jon's former torts professor turned President of Columbia university and what it means to lead under...
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Ep. 68 | Fool Me Twice, Shame on the ABA Legal Council
Arnie and Jon discuss how the Trump regime is leveraging accreditation to make universities heel. The gambit traces straight to Project 2025 and rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, who explained to the New York Times the plan to use federal funding as a weapon to exert "existential terror" on...
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Ep. 67 | Carmen Gonzalez & Rebecca Bratspies on Teaching Environmental Law in Context
Environmental law scholars Carmen G. Gonzalez and Rebecca Bratspies join the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss their new teaching guide: Teaching Environmental Law in Context. Their guide offers a corrective to the traditional environmental law course that disconnects students from the power…
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Ep. 66 | Why Education Scares Texas' GOP
Why is Texas' GOP so scared to educate their own students? Jon & Arnie discuss the rising repression across Texas' public universities. The Texas state legislature, with help from handpicked rightwing administrators, is systematically undoing the decades of work that cultivated world class higher...
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Ep. 65 | Why Fascists Fear Black Studies
"Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening--and be prepared to act." That call came from Professor Jafari Sinclaire Allen in a recent piece for The Nation that catalogued MAGA's ever-escalating assault on Black studies. Jon…
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Ep. 64 | David Oppenheimer Talks Diversity, Pauli Murray & the Fight Against American Apartheid
Justice Clarence Thomas doesn't know what "diversity" means. UC Berkeley Law Professor David Oppenheimer does. David joined the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss his new book "The Diversity Principle." The book traces the diversity principle's long and circuitous (and often overlooked) history -- one...
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Ep. 63 | Carliss Chatman on White Economic Comfort & the Myth of Free Markets
SMU Law Professor Carliss Chatman joined the #RaceClass podcast to discuss DEI "rollbacks" and the rise of "reverse racism" lawsuits from private actors and the Trump administration. We do a deep dive into Section 1981 and the myth of "free markets" -- with a specific nod to "white economic...
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Ep. 62 | What Would David Duke Do?
Jon and Arnie discuss the Justice Department's decision to indict the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on fraud charges related to its use of informants to infiltrate extremist hate groups. The indictment turns the DOJ upside down; rather than prosecute the Klan, the DOJ is targeting...
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Ep. 61 | Jon Talks Affirmative Action with the Radio Cachimbona Podcast
In this special cross-posted episode, Jon joins Yvette Borja and the Radio Cachimbona podcast to discuss affirmative action. We spend much of the episode outlining the many many (did we say many?) ways that institutions may continue to intentionally build racially equitable, diverse and inclusion...
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Ep. 60 | The Fight for Environmental Justice with Chandra Taylor-Sawyer
Chandra Taylor-Sawyer joined the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss the fight for environmental justice. Chandra is a Senior Attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and leads its Environmental Justice Initiative. For nearly two decades, she has worked to confront the disproportionate...
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Ep. 59. | You Can't Combat Racism If You Don't Name Racism
Jon and Arnie discuss the many segregationist and white supremacist dimensions of the Trump administration’s war on multiracial democracy. To map the assault on equality and democracy, we engage a recent report from the African American Policy Forum titled: “Antiblackness is the Point: Racism,...
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Ep. 58 | The Myth of Institutional Neutrality with Brian Soucek
UC Davis Law Professor Brian Soucek joined the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss his new book: "The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education." Brian is one of the most thoughtful folks out there when it comes to grappling with - and...
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Ep. 57 | Race, Class and Affirmative Action with Julie Park
Education Scholar Julie Park joins the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss her new book: "Race, Class and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era." It's hard to imagine a more timely book that takes on so many enduring questions regarding race and class in university admissions. We break…
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Ep. 56 | Was That Racist? A Conversation with Dr. Evelyn Carter
Dr. Evelyn Carter joins the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss her new book: "Was That Racist? How to Detect, Interrupt and Unlearn Bias in Everyday Life." Dr. Carter is close friend of the Pod and one of the smartest folks out there when it comes to understanding how racism manifests and how...
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Ep. 55 | The Culture War is an Actual War
Jon and Arnie chat about Ta-Nehisi Coate’s observation that “Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war.” The actual war manifests physically in ICE, the $85 billion entity that gleefully profiles, terrorizes and executes people across the United States. The actual...
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Ep. 54 | The Fight to Save America's Peacemakers with Julius Nam
As part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Congress created the little-known Community Relations Service (CRS). CRS has since become known as "America's Peacemakers" -- a nod to this small federal agency's outsized role resolving conflicts and restoring peaceful relations in American communities...
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Ep. 53 | Steven Dean Talks Global Jim Crow
Boston University Law Professor Steven Dean joins the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss his new book: "Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law: the Story of Global Jim Crow." Our conversation explores how international tax law was designed to serve white nations and harm Black nations following...
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Ep. 52 | Disclosureland with Professor Atinuke Adediran
Fordham Law School professor Atinuke Adediran joins the #RaceClass Pod to discuss her new book "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress." Against the backdrop of Trump's war on civil rights, Professor Adediran's book explores the brief tidal of wave of corporate commitments…
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Ep. 51 | Trump Makes Whiteness Great Again
Arnie and Jon discuss JD Vance’s white supremacist screed at last week’s Turning Point USA conference “AmericaFest.” Along with remarks defending racist speech, Vance proclaimed that “in the United States of America you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” As others have observed…
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Ep. 50 | Professor Atiba Ellis on Redistricting, Voting Rights and the "New Colorblindness"
“Voting rights right now is precarious and leaves open the door for undoing the generations of work to protect our young and fragile multiracial democracy.” That's the upshot from my conversation with Professor Atiba Ellis, a national voting rights expert and law professor at Case Western Reserve...
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Ep. 49 | Rory Bahadur on Critical Race Theory and Systemic Inequity
Washburn University law professor Rory Bahadur joins the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss his new book: A Critical Race Approach to Systemic Inequity. We explore Professor Bahadur's own racial education, his approach to analyzing racism in America, how human nature reproduces racism and the myths…
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Ep. 48 | Dr. CBS on Black Scare/Red Scare in the Age of Trump
Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly, aka Dr. CBS, joins #RaceClass for a wide ranging conversation about the election of Zohran Mamdani, the legacy of Black Studies, resistance in the age of Trump, and her new book Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.
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Ep. 47 | Anti-Black Racism (Also) Enables White Oppression
As Thanksgiving and its enduring mythologies approach, Jon and Arnie discuss the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign to evangelize white supremacy in the United States and abroad. Invoking Trump’s anti-DEI Executive Orders, federal officials purged a “report on missing and murdered Native...
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#Ep. 46 | The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women & Girls with Dr. Jennifer Gomez
Dr. Jennifer Gomez, an Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, joins the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss her award winning book: "The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women & Girls." Dr. Gomez walks us through the genesis and evolution of her scholarship on cultural trauma and...
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Ep. 45 | A Teach-In for Truth at the Smithsonian
In this episode, Jon shares why he traveled to Washington, D.C. for a teach-in at the Smithsonian with fellow scholars, artists, activists, podcasters and others. The teach-in was a collaboration of two historical podcasts, This Day and The Memory Palace, and drew inspiration from the teach-ins...
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Ep. 44 | How Schools Make Race with Prof. Laura Chavez-Moreno
"Latine" or "Latinx"? Race or ethnicity? English Language Learner or Emergent Bilingual? UCLA Professor Laura Chavez-Moreno joins #RaceClass to discuss her new book "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America." We explore how schools teach about race implicitly and…
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Ep. 43 | Democrats' Great Betrayal & the Mythology of Charlie Kirk
We discuss Democratic leadership’s inexcusable failure to speak honestly about and to denounce the racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ bigotry and Christian Nationalism that animated Charlie Kirk’s ideology and continues to undergird the organizations he built. It should be easy to…
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Ep. 42 | For Trump, Racism is Ends and Means
Arnie and Jon discuss how the Trump regime sees racism as both an end goal and a means to realize a whole slew of fascist desires. As to the end, we are witnessing an unrelenting campaign to entrench a racial order defined by white supremacist ideals that trace to antebellum America. The erection...
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Ep. 41 | Harvard's No Folk Hero & Trump Resegregates America
In this episode, Jon and Arnie chat more about the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on Harvard University. We highlight some complexities to this dynamic. On the one hand, Harvard is the current bulwark against Trump’s authoritarian effort to control every aspect of every university in the...
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Ep. 40 | Don't Praise Harvard Just Yet
Last week, Harvard University started fighting back against Trump's assault on higher ed. In this episode of #RaceClass, Jon and Arnie discuss why immediate praise for Harvard is premature. To deserve our praise, Harvard needs to do more than defend itself. It needs to leverage its near $60…
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Ep. 39 | Trump is Wielding Anti-Black Racism & Antisemitism to Crush America
We recorded about twelve hours after plainclothes federal officers abducted a Tufts University graduate student off the street in Somerville, MA. The student's apparent "transgression"? Writing an op-ed in Tufts' student newspaper advocating for Tufts to divest from Israel. To understand how…
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Ep. 38 | Why Are All The Universities Folding to Trump?
In this episode, Arnie and Jon explore why so many universities have voluntarily scrubbed websites and shuttered still lawful and mission critical diversity, equity and inclusion programs. We also discuss why President Trump's anti-DEI measures are themselves legally suspect. Part of the reason…
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Ep. 37 | Trump Brings the Racism and the Grift
In this episode, we discuss how Trump’s first week in office reflects what we already knew. Racism remains one of Trump’s favorite political tactics. He’ll use it to demean and delegitimize political opponents, and to distract from a separate pillar of his administration: massive self-dealing. As...
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Ep. 36 | Florida Offers the Blueprint for Trump's War on Education
In this episode, the #RaceClass Podcast explores Trump’s relationship with higher education. On the one hand, independent universities present a threat to Trump and his authoritarian ambitions. On the other hand, universities can aid Trump by voluntarily ceding power or otherwise providing cover...
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Ep. 35 | Project 2025 & Environmental Injustice
We discuss “Cancer Alley,” an 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that contains one of the largest concentrations of fossil fuel and petrochemical operations in the Western Hemisphere. These facilities expose nearby residents, who are disproportionately Black, to toxic pollutants...
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Ep. 34 | From CRT to DEI: Tracing the Assault on Multiracial Democracy
[This episode first aired as a live virtual panel on September 27, 2024.] Since the summer of 2020, rightwing officials and organizations have orchestrated a coordinated campaign to redefine antiracism as the new racism. Early iterations of this campaign presented a caricature of Critical Race...
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Ep. 33 | Even a Trump Judge Agrees that "anti-CRT" Laws are Pro-CRT
In a surprising turn of events, a federal judge recently upheld most of Oklahoma’s HB 1775, a law widely perceived as banning Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the state. However, the ruling delivered an ironic twist: Judge Charles Goodwin—a Trump appointee—clarified that the law does not prohibit...
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Ep. 32 | Teaching the Truth on Trial (Again) in Tennessee
Following the 2020-21 school year, the Sullivan County (TN) school board fired Matthew Hawn, a high school social studies teacher. As was reported at the time, the School Board punished Mr. Hawn after he assigned his Contemporary Issues class a Ta-Nehisi Coates article and shared a spoken word…
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Ep. 31 | Teaching the Truth with Dr. James Whitfield
Dr. James Whitfield joined the #RaceClass Podcast for a wide ranging conversation about his racial education as a multi-racial child in west Texas; the hostile environment teachers and students face in Texas today; and reasons for optimism even in oppressive times. Dr. Whitfield is an…
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Ep. 30 | "Asian American is Not a Color," a Conversation with Dr. OiYan Poon
In this episode, Dr. OiYan Poon joins #RaceClass to discuss her new book “Asian American is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action and Family.” Dr. Poon is a distinguished social scientist and race scholar. In a wide ranging conversation, Dr. Poon explores her own racial education...
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Ep. 29 | Because It’s Always About Race, Even When It’s Not
It has been a long semester, and we are tired. In this episode, Jon and Arnie connect lots of dots to explore the many ways race shapes contemporary fights in American society. From the Governor of Alabama dog whistling at the UAW, to pundits scolding university presidents who “negotiate” with...
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Ep. 28 | Identity Politics & Playing "Jewish Cards"
On Wednesday Apr. 24, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he would tour Columbia University and host a news conference to discuss “the troubling rise of virulent antisemitism on America’s college campuses.” Just ten days’ prior, Johnson appeared alongside Donald Trump for a press conference that...
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Ep. 27 | Rightwing Jewish Orgs Fuel a New Antisemitism
One increasingly encounters the claim that antisemitism is on the rise and progressive politics are to blame. For anyone familiar with Christopher Rufo’s unapologetic smear campaigns against CRT and DEI, there is a reflex to dismiss both claims as somewhat obvious propaganda. That reflex makes...
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Ep. 26 | Even Our Heroes Are Flawed; How Brown v. Board of Education Reinforced Racial Hierarchy
In this episode, we explore two things that Brown v. Board of Education and DEI have in common. The first is the story we know well. Both Brown and DEI have been openly vilified by the Right—a history that spans the Southern Manifesto to an ongoing assault on racial diversity. The second is the...
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Ep. 25 | When it Comes to DEI, The Left Keeps Feeding the Trolls
Rightwing personalities are blaming DEI (“diversity, equity, inclusion”) for everything from broken Boeings and bankrupt banks to a flaccid military and train derailments. These are facially unserious claims. Yet they resonate with much of the public. One might say they enjoy a common-sense logic...
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Ep. 24 | The Anti-Zionism = Antisemitism Power Play
On Dec. 5, the U.S. House passed HR 894, which states that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism.” On the same day, House Republicans charged the presidents’ of Harvard, Penn and MIT with institutional “cultures” that “foster [antisemitism] because you have faculty and students who hate Jews, hate Israel...
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Ep. 23 | Why We Can't Talk About Israel-Palestine; A Conversation w/ Prof. Sahar Aziz
On October 7, Hamas launched horrifying and unprecedent attacks targeting Israeli civilians and continues to hold Israeli hostages. Israel responded within an ongoing assault on Gaza that includes airstrikes and a blockade on humanitarian aid. Current estimates suggest that over 1,400 people have...
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