The Race Issue, Part II

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Controversial comments by Barack Obama's pastor have created a giant news storm. Join Ruth Seymour for Part II of a conversation about race in America with civil rights leader, Reverend James Lawson; NPR's Juan Williams; and USC historian Robin D.G. Kelley. (Part I aired last week.)

Guests:

• James Lawson: Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University
• Robin D.G. Kelley: Professor of American Studies, Ethnicity and History, University of Southern California
• Juan Williams: Senior Analyst, National Public Radio News

Links:

• George Packer's New Yorker article on Obama
• Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City: William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology
• New York Times article on art and race

Host

Ruth Seymour
Ruth Seymour has been the General Manager of KCRW since 1978.  Each year at Hannukah she hosts her signature Yiddish music program, Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools. She is also a sometime host of The Poltics of Culture.

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Sarah Spitz

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