Summary
Laurie Taylor is joined by Jennifer Chudy, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, Boston, who discusses her pioneering exploration of racial sympathy. She looks at the reasons why racial inequality in America prompts distress amongst some white people, but not others, and why that sympathy does not necessarily translate into solidarity and political action. Andrea Sangiovanni, Professor of Philosophy at King's College, London explores the nature of solidarity and how definitions have changed. Calls for solidarity are heard everywhere but what does it mean, in practice, and how is it distinct from altruism, justice and fellow-feeling?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, |
| 0:13.5 | moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous. |
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| 0:54.6 | Hello, I still have a ragged and unfocused photo of myself, holding one end of a banner |
| 1:01.2 | which bears the slogan against all imperialism. It was taken in March 1968 when I was part of the |
| 1:10.4 | 25,000 or so opponents of the Vietnam War, |
| 1:13.9 | who marched through the centre of London before being aggressively dispersed in Grovenor Square, |
| 1:19.0 | the home then at the American Embassy, by charging police horses. |
| 1:23.2 | Well, what renewed my interest in that old photo was the exactitude of its wording against all imperialism, all. |
| 1:32.9 | For although the march provided impressive evidence of solidarity and identification with others in a shared cause, |
| 1:40.3 | that word all was, as I well knew, a direct challenge to such other marches as the members of the Communist Party, |
| 1:48.6 | who had rather overlooked the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary in 1956. |
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