Racial inequality now, Women and political language
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Racial inequality now - what explains its persistence? Nasar Meer, Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship at the University of Edinburgh asks why racial and ethnic disparities continue to be fundamental to our society. Also, women and political language. Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Oxford University, discusses her study of the speech styles of the leaders of the main political parties in the 2015 General Election. (The latter was a pre-recorded interview which was transmitted in an earlier Thinking Allowed. The billed interview with Miri Song, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, had to be abandoned due to problems with the line from America). Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:43.0 | If you were the victim of a racial insult, |
| 0:46.0 | would you report it? |
| 0:48.0 | Find out. Hello. Some years ago I was surprised to receive an invitation to attend an African undergraduate evening at the Vice |
| 1:06.0 | Chancellor's house. Now during the actual evening there were no illusions made either in the choice |
| 1:11.0 | of food or in the topics of conversation to the |
| 1:13.1 | unusual composition of the dinner party. But at the end of the meal the VC |
| 1:17.6 | ushered the diners to a circular window seat at the far end of the lounge. A moment or two later, the Vice Chancellor's wife |
| 1:25.3 | advanced towards us with an eager smile on her face. Now let me see, she said engagingly, |
| 1:31.2 | how many blacks do we have here? |
| 1:33.4 | Well I like to think that it was only my brisk assertion, |
| 1:38.1 | oh white for me please with one sugar |
| 1:40.5 | that avoided some extreme collective embarrassment. But this this was a mere |
| 1:46.0 | liberal in felicity, nothing to write home about compared to the less |
| 1:49.5 | ambiguous remarks that had to be tolerated by those without a full set of white credentials. |
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