Race/Identity - Think

An Argument For Reparations

July 16, 2020 History, Race/Identity

Duke University public policy professor William A. Darity Jr. joins us to make the case for monetary compensation for Black Americans.

The Psychology Of Victimhood

July 14, 2020 Health, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Humanistic psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman talks to us about the relationship between victimhood and our sense of how much control we have of our lives.

James Baldwin Still Has Something To Say

July 13, 2020 Current Events, History, Literature, Race/Identity

Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. joins us to talk about looking at today’s racism through the eyes of one of the great thinkers of the 20th Century.

Why Science Is So Easy To Dismiss

July 13, 2020 Current Events, Health, Politics, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Adrian Bardon, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, joins us to talk about how identity, political affiliation, culture and rationalization have led to science denial.

The Future Of DACA

July 10, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, Politics, Race/Identity

In this collaboration between Think and The Texas Newsroom, we’ll explore why Congress has been unwilling to create legislation that addresses DACA, share the stories of DACA recipients as they go about their lives unable to plan for their futures, and talk to Janet Napolitano, who initiated the program as President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary.

Meet The Woman Behind Some Of TV’s Funniest Characters

July 8, 2020 Culture, Race/Identity

The creator of “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and an Emmy-nominated co-executive producer of “Will & Grace”, Kari Lizer, joins us to talk about life after the kids have left, a new disdain for high heels, and finally finding her voice.

Not Black And White: Asian-American Women And Colorism

July 7, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Race/Identity

Nikki Khanna, associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Vermont, joins us to talk about how these women internalize feelings of being less than.

How having an abortion — or not — affects women

July 6, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Health, Race/Identity

Researcher Diana Greene Foster talks about her book “The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion.”

How Women Earned The Right To Vote

July 6, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics, Race/Identity

Writer, director, and producer Michelle Ferrari joins us to talk about the passage of the 19th Amendment and the brave women who pushed that movement to success.

Colson Whitehead Visits The Jim Crow South

July 1, 2020 History, Literature, Race/Identity

Colson Whitehead’s latest novel is based on a real juvenile detention reformatory in 1960s Florida. He joins us to talk about his story of two boys, bound by the trauma around them as they swing between hope and cynicism.

Beyond Borders: What Makes A Nation

July 1, 2020 Global Issues, History, Politics, Race/Identity

Thomas Meaney, a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, joins us to talk about the history of military intervention, citizen uprisings, and the ideas around citizenship that define belonging in our world.

What Happened The Last Time We Tried To Cut Off Immigation

June 30, 2020 History, Politics, Race/Identity

Jia Lynn Yang, deputy national editor at the New York Times, joins us to talk about the lawmakers at the forefront of the push to change the law and the immigrants at the center of the fight for equality.