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On October 7, Hamas launched horrifying and unprecedent attacks targeting Israeli civilians and continues to hold Israeli hostages. Israel responded within an ongoing assault on Gaza that includes airstrikes and a blockade on humanitarian aid. Current estimates suggest that over 1,400 people have di...

In this special hour-long episode, Professor Victor Ray joins us to discuss racial education, structural racism, identity politics and his recent book "On Critical Race Theory."

In SFFA v. Harvard, the Supreme Court narrowed a university’s ability to consider the racial identity of individual students during admissions. Justice Roberts also emphasized that universities may consider each student’s personal experiences with race or racism. Many schools have responded by addin...

For our 20th Episode, we circle back to the beginning. In Episode 1, we asked why the mainstream press struggled so mightily to call the GOP’s campaign of discriminatory censorship what it is: an unapologetic assault on free speech. Unfortunately, little has changed. 18 months later, and much of the...

The opinion dropped. As we expected, conservative Justices invoked the claim that race-conscious policies stigmatize and mismatch their beneficiaries. Both claims have attracted sustained critique. But they still enjoy traction in the popular press and shape our national affirmative action conversat...

Next month, the Supreme Court will likely ban universities from considering the racial identity of individual applicants. Many schools will seek “race-neutral alternatives” to retain a racially diverse student body. One likely alternative will be to consider each student’s class status (but not thei...

Recent events have sparked well-worn debates about racial profiling. When these conversations arise, we often hear the claim that racial profiling is “rational.” We’re skeptical. Why? Because this claim rests on two faulty assumptions: (1) that we have accurate information in our heads & (2) tha...

Consider the following two sentences:“White students are often over-represented on elite college campuses.”“Students racialized as white are often over-represented on elite college campuses.” The first might seem unobjectionable. The second might seem awkward and jargony. The challenge is, the phras...

Words matter. In April 2022, the College Board’s AP African American studies curriculum referenced the word “systemic” 9 times; “reparations” 15 times; “intersectionality” 19 times. By Feb. 2023, following pressure from DeSantis and others, those words had vanished from the AP curriculum (to be prec...

On May 17, 2022 #RaceClass recorded a special episode in response to the Buffalo Race Massacre. We explore how increasingly common political rhetoric from rightwing entities laid the ideological groundwork for an act of racial terrorism that was as predictable as it was deplorable.