Code Switch (Podcast)

Code Switch (Podcast)

Code Switch (Podcast)

1.9 May 2016

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Overview

English

Support for Israel is waning, but many White Evangelical Christians remain steadfast

How 'The Joy Luck Club' highlighted the complicated dynamics of immigrant families

Jelani Cobb talks democracy, Trumpism, and the future of journalism

Venezuela and the long tradition of US interference

Freedom through the eyes of foes: Rev. Martin Luther King and Sen. Barry Goldwater

How local police extend ICE's reach, even in sanctuary cities

What the quarter-zip craze tells us about Blackness and respectability

What the history of U.S. protests illuminates about today

Americans are worried about crime. Here’s how politicians leverage it

The history of Black History Month, one hundred years in

Bad Bunny, resistance, and the Super Bowl halftime show

Was dating while Black always so hard?

Trump shared a racist "joke." That humor is an American tradition

The U.S., Cuba, and the people caught between

What is "white culture," anyway?

The Young Lords' legacy of fighting for Puerto Rico from the mainland

Remembering Jesse Jackson

How the internet got gentrified

Why Iranian perspectives often get flattened and caricatured

What the success of "Sinners" does (and doesn't) say about race and Hollywood

The Black civil rights leader who sued to be called “Miss”

The Scouts are too woke, according to Pete Hegseth

What Trump's language has in common with cult language

Markwayne Mullin is conservative, Christian, Cherokee, and the new head of DHS

Being an “ally” is kind of cringe. Why?

'Mar-a-Lago face:' MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test

From the Confederacy to the White House: How Southern beauty traditions went MAGA

As the definition of “terrorist” expands, so does state violence

How your vote became your identity

Gaza commanded our attention. Why hasn't Sudan?

Is the U.S. 'empire' beginning to show cracks?

Hate it or love it, is DEI a distraction?

In college admission, trauma is shorthand for Blackness

Are Black men facing a mental health crisis, a patriarchy crisis, or both?

Tradwives and the pressures of modern motherhood

The minefields of parenting and race

How the Supreme Court gutted Black voting power

What the Savannah Bananas have to do with race and baseball

Is astrology real? Depends who you ask

Why do Latinos join ICE?

Why so many Americans never learned to swim

It's giving incel: The evolution of internet slang

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