Code Switch Goes To College

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A professor at the University of Texas San Antonio designed a college course based around episodes of the Code Switch podcast! In it, her students learned how to have tough conversations about race and identity, using Shereen and Gene as an example. But after an incident on campus involving the police made national news, their theoretical classroom discussions stopped being polite and started getting real.

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0:00.0	Was good, y'all. This is Gene. And it's that time of the year again, the time of the year when you're thinking about giving.
0:05.5	You know, getting something nice for your moms or your uncle or your little ones or for Bay.
0:09.7	Oh, I just felt sweet.
0:11.7	Well, since you're in that spirit right now of giving, consider this a little nudge to give to your local public radio station.
0:19.5	If you rock with us at Code Switch, you know how often we turn to the tweets you send us, and we turn them into whole segments.
0:25.5	You know how often we respond directly to the emails that you send our way.
0:28.5	The concerns you have, the questions you want answered, that's all the stuff we want to know too.
0:33.0	That's part of the mission of public radio. It's in the DNA of it.
0:37.0	Thoughtful community oriented journalism. So when you support your local public radio member station, it goes a long, long way to making our podcast and other podcasts like it possible.
0:48.5	And those member stations can only do what they do because they are supported by listeners just like you.
0:53.5	So keep showing your support for your local member stations. Go to donate.mpr.org slash code switch and give this donate.
1:00.5	Dot mpr.org slash code switch.
1:03.5	All right, Joe. All with the show.
1:05.5	Good morning.
1:06.5	Good morning.
1:07.5	Is it weird to see us in person?
1:11.5	Who am I?
1:12.5	Anyone?
1:15.5	No, I'm actually sorry. That's a good one.
1:17.5	How many people in this class talked about race before coming to this class by a show of hands?
1:23.5	Everybody, everybody's raising their hands. Okay, so you already talked about race in your own lives.
1:27.5	I mean, a lot of families have been having this conversation for literally hundreds of years.
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