ShowAboutRace – Contemporary Racism

Whiteness as Social Capital

Cassandra Baker — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:12:41 +0000

Recently I was listening to an episode of the podcast About Race, a podcast where 3 hosts discuss current race issues in an open way. One of the hosts mentioned that black assimilation to white culture as a solution to race disparity is problematic. They looked at a specific study that showed that black people who moved to white middle-class neighborhoods before they were twelve had a “compound interest of awesomeness” where they were more ...

Phenotypes & Stereotypes

Jenna Lehmann — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:38:19 +0000

I drive three hours almost every weekend to go home to my family, and lately I’ve been listening to podcasts to help pass the time, namely RadioLab. I came across an episode from season five simply titled “Race.” There are a lot of interesting stories featured under this topic, but one in particular has kept me thinking long after listening to it. There has been this trend circling around the internet where people reveal the ...