John McWhorter & Jonathan Rieder – Canceling "Culture in America"
About this episode
0:00 Why Jonathan’s course “Culture in America” got canceled
9:07 The fragility of liberal arts education
17:24 Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom
27:44 Is there a future for free inquiry?
35:03 John: Black middle-class students don’t need affirmative action
44:57 Is diversity the problem, or is it elitism?
52:35 The virtues (and virtue signaling) of Randall Kennedy
Recorded June 17, 2023
Links and Readings
Alex Morey and Nadine Strossen’s FIRE article about Jonathan, “Who’s Allowed to Teach ‘Culture in America’?”
Barnard’s Center for Engaged Pedagogy
John’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Cornell Belcher’s book, A Black Man in the White House: Barack Obama and the Triggering of America’s Racial-Aversion Crisis
Richard Rothstein’s Atlantic piece, “The Problem with Wealth-Based Affirmative Action”
John’s guest post, “Racial Preferences May End, but the Fight Will Continue”
Derrick Bell’s book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Glenn’s City Journal essay, “Affirmative Distraction”
Randall Kennedy’s Atlantic essay, “My Race Problem”
Randall Kennedy’s book, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
Randall Kennedy’s book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
John McWhorter and Randall Kennedy on The Glenn Show
John’s 2008 Bloggingheads conversation with Randall Kennedy
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