Stanford University associate professor Tomás Jiménez joins us to take on the idea of assimilation, the history behind it, and what’s lost when immigrants are encouraged to change who they are.
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White People Problems
Psychologist Natasha Stovall joins us to talk about why it’s taboo to study how white patients worry, reckon, or rage about their place in the social system.
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Why ‘Why?’ Isn’t Always the Right Question
Sociologist Gregory Smithsimon joins us to talk about how often the question “why?” actually leads us down the wrong path and encourages us to overlook our own biases.
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How We Catch Feelings
Science journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz joins us to talk about why we sometimes mimic one another.
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What Our DNA Says About Us
Alondra Nelson,the dean of social science at Columbia University, joins us to talk about the relationship between contemporary racial issues and DNA.
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Our Races, Ourselves
We’ll talk about the role that race plays in our identities with a panel of sociologists who study race.
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