John McWhorter – Glenn and John Go Across the Pond

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

The Equiano Project

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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