On this week’s podcast, I’m joined by two writers to speak in regards to the perennially fraught challenge of race. There’s a large consensus that
On this week’s podcast, I’m joined by two writers to speak in regards to the perennially fraught challenge of race. There’s a large consensus that discrimination on the idea of race is unsuitable; however what truly *is* race? Does it map onto a significant genetic or scientific taxonomy? Does it map onto a lived actuality – is it attainable to generalise, say, about ‘black’ expertise? And might we or ought to we decide out of or ignore it? Adam Rutherford and Thomas Chatterton Williams strategy these points from very totally different angles: the previous, in How To Argue With A Racist, brings genetic science to bear on the myths and realities of inhabitants variations; whereas the latter describes in Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race how after half a lifetime strongly connected to the thought of his personal blackness, the arrival of his blonde haired and blue eyed daughter made him rethink his worldview.