African Americans
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Browncast: Dr Woodson
Razib and Mukunda speak with Robert Woodson, founder of the Woodson Center and a member of the 1776 Project, about the US racial dialogue, the Civil Rights era, how it…
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Browncast Episodes 121 & 122: Desi-Rae, heterodox Jamaican American, and Anthony, a black American in China
Two BrownCast episodes: Razib Khan talks to Desi-Rae, a Jamaican American with heterodox views on race in Jamaica and the US, relationships and the fallout from speaking out, and to…
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American caste! (?)
Razib Khan criticises a New York Times Magazine extract that compares American racial hierarchy to Indian caste and Nazi Germany, arguing the author lacks knowledge of India and citing intermarriage…
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When you have a hammer everything is a nail
Quotes an essay arguing that two Indian-descent teenagers accused of a racist assault at a New Jersey football game were enacting American whiteness, which shows race as something people perform,…
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Why it is very sad that racism arose in the US but not India-
The author argues caste is best seen as an institution that ring-fenced ancestry, so that low AASI rather than high ANI marks higher rank, and speculates on how class structure…
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Browncast Ep 36: Karl Smith, Communist to neoliberal
On Browncast Episode 36, Bloomberg columnist and former economist Karl Smith, raised in an orthodox Marxist family and now a nonpartisan neoliberal, discusses his experience as a black American intellectual,…
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Is Blackish, Brownish?
X.T.M reflects on the sitcom Blackish and the many mixed-race members of its cast, arguing that the one-drop rule lets ‘exotic’ bi-racial people claim belonging in the Black community, and…
