An Award Winning Podcast about race and racism with Boston University Law Professor Jonathan Feingold & WNHN host Arnie Arnesen.

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Recent Episodes

  • University of Mississippi professor James (JT) Thomas joined the #RaceClass Podcast for a convesation about whiteness, teaching sociology in a deep red state, and glimpses of the impossible in Mississippi. We also explore how Du Bois can help us understand the "Souls of Jewish Folks" and what it's like to grow up on both sides of color line in Kansas City.

  • UC Berkeley Law Professor Russell Robinson joins for deep dive into the Trump administration's war on Blackness, civil rights and the prospect of multiracial democracy. We question whether courts and institutions will appropriately respond to our "upside down moment" in which the federal agencies created to protect civil rights are led by individuals & organizations nostalgic for the racial and gender hierarchies that defined pre-civil rights U.S. society.

    Learn about Professor Robinson's work:

    https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/russell-robinson/

  • Arnie and Jon discuss Trump's plan to leverage the IRS to resegregate higher education. The effort echoes Christopher Rufo's call for the Trump administration to "industrialize" its assault on higher education by exerting "existential terror" on the entire sector.

    The proposed IRS rule could advance Trump's campaign to push Black and brown students out of higher education and entrench racist tropes about who's got intellectual chops and who doesn't.

    But the rule's actual text does something unexpected. Trump might want the rule to eliminate DEI, but it actually creates liability for universities that disparately harm students of color and creates a safe harbor for initiatives that reduce prejudice and discrimination.