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The Glenn Show

Racism at Georgetown? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The contentious origins of Glenn and John's relationship ... Cancellations at Georgetown and racial disparities in academic performance ... What is to blame for racial disparities in academic performance? ... The quality-fit tradeoff and the mismatch effect ... Is racism widespread in American universities? ... Cornel West's departure from Harvard ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to a podcast from BloggingHeads TV.

0:07.0

Hey John, how you doing?

0:10.0

Hi Glenn.

0:11.0

Glenn Lowry, the Glenn Show BloggingHeads.tv, and Patreon.com forward slash Glenn Show with

0:17.4

John McWhorter, my conversation partner, bye weekly.

0:20.7

John's at Columbia, I'm at Brown with the black guys at BloggingHeads.tv.

0:25.7

So John, we were just reminiscing about all kinds of stuff.

0:28.7

I want the world to know, if you don't mind, point privilege, that Harvard University

0:35.1

Press is going to print a second edition of my 2002 book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality,

0:42.7

which were the Du Bois lectures that I gave at Harvard in the year 2000, they're going

0:48.0

to reprint it.

0:49.0

It's become a classic, John.

0:50.0

Two decades later, the press decides that they need to run off another, hopefully many

0:56.0

hundreds of thousands of copies of my book.

1:01.7

And I'm in the thrills right now, I'm writing a preface, a new preface, and having to go

1:06.1

into a whole lot of stuff, which is not necessarily what we want to talk about, but I do want to

1:09.4

start out by patting myself on the back because since you write so many books, at least they

1:16.2

can reprint what it was that I wrote 20 years ago, I'm still trying to keep up with you,

1:21.3

John.

1:22.3

But that book was better than most of the ones that I've written.

1:25.9

And I want to see it reprint with that great preface because I love that book.

1:32.2

Believe it or not, given how we felt about each other back then, I felt that.

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