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
Rogers Brubaker’s book, Ethnicity without Groups
Glenn and John’s May 2020 conversation about George Floyd
