Podcasts & Blogs
An Incomplete and Growing List
It is not really possible to separate the links below in to podcasts or blogs – as many of them contain both written material as well as audio programs. So, check them out and see how they can be helpful in
If you are someone who likes listening to material, check out the podcasts listed here. that you might find these podcasts interesting Here are a series of podcasts that address issues of race and social interactions.
Code Switch
Check out a podcast from the NPR Code Switch team that looks at race and identity. This one is a good one to start with as it includes a well-supported and diverse team that takes a broader look and invites many guests which can help you discover other resources.
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
Black Girl Dangerous
This podcast and blog seeks to amplify the voices of queer and trans people of color.
They Call Us Bruce
Hosts Jeff Yang and Phil Yu engage in an unfiltered conversation about what’s happening in Asian America.
http://theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/
About Race
While this podcast just wrapped up, there are archives you can go back and listen to. Here’s description of the show: Co-discussants Anna Holmes, Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda and Tanner Colby host a lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America. This show is “About Race.”
https://www.showaboutrace.com/
Good Muslim Bad Muslim
Tanzila ‘Taz’ Ahmed and Zahra Noorbakhsh host a conversation on what it means to be Muslim American women.
http://www.goodmuslimbadmuslim.com
Hidden Brain
A Conversation about LIfe’s Unseen Patterns hosted by Shankar Vedantam
http://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain
Revisionist History
Malcolm Gladwell, an author and writer for The New Yorker, takes a look back at historical events with a new lens to provide us better understanding of both the past and the present.
http://revisionisthistory.com/
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