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Explain It to Me

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Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.47.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jane, Dara, and Matt explain “intersectional,” “structural” and the new language of identity discourse. Resources: "The intersectionality wars" by Jane Coaston, Vox "The Origins of “Privilege”" by Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker "Toward Black Liberation " National Humanities Center White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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How's the main, Matt? Absolutely. I am self-isolating, but it's a nice place to self-isolate,

1:01.1

and in a few days, we will be free to leave the premises. So that'll be glorious.

1:08.6

Hello. Welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew

1:25.2

Iglesias here with Jane Coaston for Publicas, Darryl Lynch. I feel like I have noticed in my

1:32.4

increasing old age, is that I feel like something that has happened in media over the past few years,

1:41.2

which I think is mostly good, is that a lot of more sophisticated, academic type concepts

1:50.0

about issues of race and identity have come more into mainstream dialogue, which is largely a,

2:00.3

it's a sign of progress, right? People are trying to deploy increasingly sophisticated ideas.

2:06.5

At the same time, some of this can be confusing because it's introduced to people not in the context

2:14.0

of an academic seminar, but in a political free-for-all. It's at least been my observation that there

2:21.2

isn't a lot of explicit acknowledgement that there is this kind of conceptual shift.

2:28.9

And sometimes things flip around. I mean, to me, the most clear one of this is the idea of

2:34.0

intersectionality, which is what I actually like, I learned this in school. I took a women's studies

2:40.0

class. We had a thing about intersectionality. I like read the books. I think I know what that means.

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