Who Are Your 'Quick And Deep' Friends?

Death, Sex & Money

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4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A conversation with a psychologist about the importance of friends who cross racial lines—and those who don't. Want to reflect on how race has factored into your friendships? Take our survey at deathsexmoney.org/friendship. Afterward, you can see how other people have responded to the survey questions, and we'll also send you a recommended reading list. And, as always, you can sign up for our newsletter by going to deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Every Wednesday we'll send you behind-the-scenes updates, podcast listening recommendations, and some pretty incredible listener letters from our inbox. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Anna. Last week we partnered with the NPR Podcast Code Switch to bring you two episodes
0:11.9	all about race and friendship. how race has come up in your
0:14.9	friendships, what happened next, and why it can be so challenging to make and maintain cross-racial
0:21.3	friendships.
0:22.5	If you haven't heard those episodes yet, definitely go back and take a listen.
0:26.4	We also put out a survey for all of you to take about how race has factored into your friendships. You can find it at death sex money.org
0:34.6	slash friendship. More than a thousand of you have taken that survey so far and
0:38.9	we've gotten some really interesting responses and we've also heard from some of you that taking the survey has felt a little ill-fitting, that
0:47.0	answering questions about the number of friends you have outside your race makes it feel like
0:52.2	it's a survey designed for white people because
0:54.6	for some of you that's the reality of moving through majority white spaces as a
0:59.1	person of color. So we wanted to talk through some of your responses with Dr. Deborah Plummer, a psychologist
1:04.7	and professor who studied cross-racial friendships and written about it in several books.
1:09.3	Her latest is called Some of my Friends are the daunting challenges and untapped benefits of cross-racial
1:16.4	friendships.
1:17.4	Dr. Plummer is on the phone with me now.
1:18.8	Hello, Dr. Plummer.
1:19.8	Hello.
1:21.2	Hello. Hello.
1:22.2	So I want to talk with you about some of these daunting challenges and untapped benefits.
1:26.4	That's something we heard from our listeners when we were hearing stories about race and friendship.
1:31.4	And I want to know first how you came to research this cross-racial
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