0:35 A quick announcement
1:46 What led Yascha to write about identity
6:22 An intellectual history of “identity synthesis”
12:15 What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”?
19:15 From postmodernism to post-civil rights
28:45 The three key claims of identity synthesis
36:02 What led up to the summer of 2020?
45:51 The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo
50:45 Yascha’s defense of universalism
Recorded October 3, 2023
Links and Readings
Yascha’s new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Michel Foucault’s book, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Edward Said’s book, Orientalism
Gayatri Spivak’s essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Glenn’s debate with Kmele Foster, Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, and Reihan Salam
Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Tommie Shelby’s book, We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault’s 1971 debate on Dutch television
Derrick Bell’s book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Derrick Bell’s essay, “Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation”
Mahalia Jackson singing “We Shall Overcome”
Roy D’Andrade’s article, “Moral Models in Anthropology”
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