Can We Talk About Whiteness?

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Gene and Shereen dig into why it's so hard to talk about white identity in America — and why it's really important that we figure out how.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's Code Switch, Race and Identity Remix!
0:06.0	I'm Shireen Madisal Miraji.
0:09.0	That was too much.
0:10.0	And I'm James Np and this is the first episode of our new podcast.
0:14.0	You ready?
0:15.0	We better be ready.
0:16.0	Yeah, people have been asking about this for a long time.
0:18.0	I don't know if we wanted to do it for a long time.
0:20.0	We have.
0:21.0	Now it's finally finally happening.
0:22.0	This whole team, our whole coach's team, is excited to bring you all these messy conversations,
0:26.0	play with all these different ways of telling stories about race and ethnicity.
0:29.0	So we're going to mix it up a lot.
0:30.0	We don't have all the answers.
0:32.0	We have lots of questions.
0:33.0	But here's the thing.
0:34.0	We're going to figure it out together.
0:36.0	So we're about to do this.
0:37.0	Let's do it.
0:38.0	Alright, so a couple weeks ago I was sitting at my desk in Osmo Halle.
0:41.0	She's a reporter on the NPR politics team.
0:43.0	She's our play cousin.
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