John McWhorter – How Should We Handle Antisemitism?

0:00 Why are we paying so much attention to Kanye West’s antisemitism?

14:02 The two words you never say together

23:28 Could widespread antisemitism take hold in the US?

36:53 The mythological black past and the realities of the present

48:12 How necessary is rootedness to the modern human experience?

56:54 How we make race, how race makes us

Recorded on December 10, 2022

Links and Readings

Dave Chappelle’s SNL monologue on Kanye West and Kyrie Irving

John’s NYT piece, “It’s Too Darn Loud”  

Wilson Jeremiah Moses’s book, Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History

Orlando Patterson’s essay, “Toward a Future That Has No Past – Reflections on the Fate of Blacks in America”

Rogers Brubaker’s book, Ethnicity without Groups

Glenn and John’s May 2020 conversation about George Floyd

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