RACE CLASS WITH ARNIE ARNESEN AND JONATHAN FEINGOLD
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We talk with Professor Jonathan Feingold, in class #3 of Race Class: Affirmative Action. We discuss how Affirmative Action is designed to produce neutrality in admission.
We talk about the classifications used by Harvard and other universities to admit students, and give them ‘extra credit’ during the admissions process.
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RACE CLASS WITH ARNIE ARNESEN AND JONATHAN FEINGOLD, JUNE 23, 2022
6/23/20220 Comments
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This is Race Class episode 7
#RaceClass Ep. 6, Part B: How Race Matters After Admissions | A Conversation with Dr. Evelyn Carter.
Last episode, we explored how race matters after university admissions. Affirmative action advocates often highlight diversity’s “speech” function—that is, how more diversity promotes richer conversations in the classroom. That’s true, but it understates the case for diversity. Accordingly, we shifted the focus to diversity’s “equality” function—that is, how racial diversity safeguards each student’s right to enjoy the benefits of university membership. In essence, when white students are over-represented on a college campus, that demographic reality—coupled with pervasive presumptions about who “belongs” on elite college campuses—can create a “racial preference” for white students. One might say that affirmative action, by buffering against that dynamic, promotes racial equality on campus.
In this follow-up episode, rockstar social psychologist Dr. Evelyn Carter helps us dive deeper into the science of diversity and equality. She explains the phenomenon of stereotype threat, exposes how institutional environments matter, and helps us see the intersectional identities we often overlook.
#RaceClass Recs: Whistling Vivaldi (Claude Steele) | Hidden in Plain Sight: A More Compelling Case for Diversity
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RACE CLASS WITH ARNIE ARNESEN AND JONATHAN FEINGOLD, #6, JUNE 9, 2022
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#RaceClass Ep. 6, Part A | Race Matters After Admissions: Equality Requires Diversity
with Dr. Jonathan Feingold
#RaceClass is launching a 6-part series on affirmative action. But we’re taking an unconventional turn. Rather than focus on affirmative action itself, we’re exploring how *race matters* before affirmative action arrives. Specifically, we’ll ask how race mattersbefore, during, and after university admissions. Why? Because we can’t know affirmative action until we know the backdrop it intervenes against.
To kick things off, we explore how racial diversity serves a key equality function. Specifically, racial diversity safeguards each student’s right to enjoy the benefits of university membership. Put differently, when white students are over-represented on a college campus, that demographic reality – coupled with pervasive presumptions about who “belongs” – creates a “racial preference” for white students. One might say affirmative action, by buffering against that over-representation, promotes racial equality on campus.
Next episode, Dr. Evelyn Carter joins us to dive deeper into the science of diversity and equality. Join us!
Reading Recommendation: Diversity Drift
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RACE CLASS WITH ARNIE ARNESEN AND JONATHAN FEINGOLD, #5, MAY 26, 2022
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#RaceClass Ep. 5 | Race as a “Social Construct”: Elites Create the Rules that Serve Elites
Race is a “social construct.” This means that humans created (a) racial categories, (b) the meanings we associate with those categories, and (c) the gatekeeping rules that determine who goes into which category. In #RaceClass Ep. 5, we explore the gatekeeping rules. Specifically, we ask why political elites in antebellum America adopted different gatekeeping rules for the category “Black” and the category “Indian.” Turns out, it’s all about property. And, as always, context matters.
We also remember Philando Castile – whose 2016 killing exposed that there are two Second Amendments in the United States. And race has long informed which Second Amendment a person can enjoy.
Reading Recommendation: The Second, by Carol Anderson
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RACE CLASS, WITH ARNIE ARNESEN AND JONATHAN FEINGOLD, PART 4, APRIL 28, 2022
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#RaceClass Ep. 4 | Race/ism as a Political Weapon
with Prof. Jonathan Feingold, Boston University
Race is a social construct. This means humans created race. But why?
In #RaceClass Ep. 4, we outline how economic and political elites have long employed race/ism as a potent political tool to: (1) DIVIDE (multiracial coalitions); (2) DISTRACT (us from the systems that produce our shared precarity) and (3) DEFEND (an America defined by enduring inequality). With references to Heather Mcghee & Ian Haney-Lopez, and shout outs to Kathryn Joyce & Jennifer Berkshire.
PLUS a mini-lesson on the “social construction” of race. What else is a social construct? Hammers, international boundaries, and money
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RACE CLASS, WITH ARNIE ARNESEN AND JONATHAN FEINGOLD, MARCH 24, 2022, PART 3
3/24/20220 Comments
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This is episode 3 of Race Class.
We know that race matters. But it can be hard to pinpoint precisely *how* race matters. In episode 3, we discuss 5 ways that race shapes life in America—even if we wish it didn’t. We’ll cover how race shapes (1) access to resources; (2) others expectations of us; (3) different treatment people receive; (4) our perspectives; and (5) the conditions we must navigate as we move through life. This list is not exhaustive. Still, it expands our vocabulary and helps us explain what we might mean when we say “race matters.”
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RACE CLASS FEBRUARY 24, 2022
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RACE CLASS with BU Law Professor Jonathan Feingold (Given the GOP fears teaching students about systemic racism & refuses to allow teachers to tackle the question: why does racism & inequality still exist after the civil rights movement. We take up the challenge )
Race Class #2 -What is Racism?
The second installment of Race Class – What is racism?. In an effort to respond, Boston University Law Professor Jonathan Feingold and The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen are offering “Race Class” – a once a month course/conversation where listeners can hear what it is like to approach race and racism from a place of curiosity and history rather than fear and anxiety.
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RACE CLASS – JANUARY 27, 2022
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The first installment of Race Class Legislation restricting the teaching of race and racism in public schools and government entities has spread across the country. In an effort to respond, Boston University Law Professor Jonathan Feingold and The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen are offering “Race Class” – a once a month course/conversation where listeners can hear what it is like to approach race and racism from a place of curiosity and history rather than fear and anxiety.
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