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John McWhorter – Glenn and John Go Across the Pond
Published 3 years, 6 months ago
Description
0:00 Glenn and John go to Cambridge
9:25 The Hamline University Prophet Muhammad controversy
14:38 John: “Physics is physics”
18:45 The Harlem Renaissance and Black Studies
26:35 Is “getting past race” more trouble than it’s worth?
36:51 Is Joe Biden patronizing black people?
42:59 How a black musical changed the sound of Broadway
Recorded January 20, 2023
Links and Readings
Arnold Rampersand’s biography of Langston Hughes
John’s 2002 City Journal piece, “The Mau-Mauing at Harvard”
Glenn and John’s recent conversation with Greg Thomas
Caseen Gaines’s book, When Broadway Was Black
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