America's Concentration Camps?
There's a debate over what to call the facilities holding migrant asylum seekers at the southern border. We revisit an earlier controversy to help make sense of it.See pcm.adswizz.com for information ...
3 Juli 201927min
Some Of The People Knew Magic
Fifty years after the Stonewall Uprising, queer and trans folks are uncovering hidden parts of LGBTQ+ history. A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, "Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years Afte...
26 Juni 201926min
Code Switch Book Club: Summer 2019
Our listeners suggestions include American history, compelling fiction, a few memoirs—and Jane Austen, re-imagined with brown people.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of...
19 Juni 201925min
E Ola Ka 'Olelo Hawai'i
Every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker. That was the fate of Hawaiian, until a group of second-language learners put up a fight and declared, "E Ola Ka 'Olelo Hawai'i" (The Hawaiian Lan...
12 Juni 201925min
The Original 'Welfare Queen'
It's a pernicious stereotype, but it was coined in reference to a real woman named Linda Taylor. But her misdeeds were far more numerous and darker than welfare fraud. This week: how politicians used ...
5 Juni 201931min
Salt Fat Acid Race
Samin Nosrat is an award-winning chef, cookbook author, and star of the Netflix series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. She's also an Iranian American woman trying to represent two cultures that are often perce...
29 Maj 201923min
Dispatches From The Schoolyard
In middle school and high school, we're figuring out how to fit in and realizing that there are things about ourselves that we can't change — whether or not we want to. This week, we're turning the mi...
22 Maj 201930min
Anger: The Black Woman's 'Superpower'
A Sapphire isn't only a jewel—it's also cultural shorthand for an angry black woman. In this episode, we look at where Sapphire was born, and how the stereotype continues to haunt black women, even su...
15 Maj 201919min
