Culture Wars/Current Controversies

CANCELLING Whoopi for Racism w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon & Thomas Chatterton Williams

This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Thomas Chatterton Williams & Batya Ungar-Sargon in one of the few substantive conversations on the internet about why Whoopi’s claim that Jews are white, and the Holocaust wasn’t about race. What work is the word “race” doing here? Is it possible to recognize the particularized nature of anti-Semitism and the fact that Nazi’s saw Jews as raced while also acknowledging that Jews are “raced” differently in a contemporary American context?

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