Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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How White Kids Understand Race
For two years, Margaret Hagerman studied dozens of affluent, white families in a Midwestern community to get a sense of how the ideas of privilege, race, and racism, were talked about (or not). The result is her new book White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided Americ.