30 Issues: Race, Beyond Affirmative Action (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 27 October 2008)

Charles Blow , New York Times 's visual Op-Ed columnist , and Andrew Kohut , president of the Pew Research Center and author of America Against the World : How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (Times Books, 2006), review American attitudes toward race, as evidence by polling. Then Dr. Cornel West , the Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University, author of Race Matters , and most recently, Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom , (Hay House, 2008) and Maria Hinojosa , managing editor and host of NPR's Latino USA and senior correspondent for the PBS newsmagazine NOW, and Abigail Thernstrom , senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, the vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and co-author with her husband of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (Simon & Schuster, October 2003), discuss the state of race relations in the U.S. Then Spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai asks why in "national conversations about race" the viewpoints of Asian Americans often are left out. What specific topics should a national conversation about race include? Comment below!

Submission | October 27, 2008

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