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What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story. Code Switch was named Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year in 2020.Want to level up your Code Switch game? Try Code Switch Plus. Your subscription supports the show and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/codeswitch

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Sometimes Explain, Always Complain

Sometimes Explain, Always Complain

It's Thanksgiving week, so we wanted to give y'all a question to fight about: How much context should you have to give when talking about race and culture? Is it better to explain every reference, or let people go along for the ride? Comedian Hari Kondabolu joins us to hash it out.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

29:1527/11/2019

Sex, Lies And Audio Tape

Sex, Lies And Audio Tape

Sometimes, in order to understand yourself, you fumble through a tough conversation with your mom. Other times, you roll up to a sex club with your best friend. In his new fiction podcast "Moonface," producer James Kim explores all the messy, scandalous, cringe-worthy ways that different parts of our identities collide.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

55:1320/11/2019

Status Update

Status Update

Nearly 9 million people in the U.S. are part of a "mixed-status" family: some may be U.S. citizens; some may have green cards; others may face the constant specter of deportation. As the Supreme Court gets ready to decide the fate of DACA — a program that protects some undocumented people from being removed from the country — we check in with three siblings who all have different statuses, and whose fates may hinge on the outcome of this case.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

25:5013/11/2019

Is This What It Means To Be White?

Is This What It Means To Be White?

In 1965, a white minister and civil rights organizer, James Reeb, was killed by a group of white men in Selma, Ala. Reeb's death drew national outrage, but no one was ever held accountable. We spoke to two reporters — white Southerners of a younger generation — about the lies that kept this murder from being solved.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

24:3606/11/2019

Fear In An Age Of Real-Life Horror

Fear In An Age Of Real-Life Horror

It's Halloween, and people are leaning into all things scary. But sometimes those celebrations of the macabre hit a little too close to home, brushing up against our country's very dark past. So how do you navigate fake-horror in the midst of so much that's actually terrifying?Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

28:4330/10/2019

A Strange And Bitter Crop

A Strange And Bitter Crop

Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida, to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up there, but didn't learn about Claude Neal until he was working on a research paper in high school. When he heard the story, he knew he had to do something.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

25:1823/10/2019

President Trump's (Anti-)Social Media

President Trump's (Anti-)Social Media

The President's Twitter feed has become the White House's primary mechanism for communicating with the world. Ayesha Rascoe of NPR Politics took a deep dive into Trump's combative social media universe and found that he does not go after all of the objects of his ire in the same way.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

30:2916/10/2019

That's The Anthem, Get Your [Dang] Hands Up!

That's The Anthem, Get Your [Dang] Hands Up!

On this episode, we look closer at hit songs that have taken on broader resonances: from a wistful ode to Puerto Rico to a disco classic about outlasting and thriving to an enduring bop about pushy, unfortunate men — i.e., scrubs.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

35:0009/10/2019

Political Prisoners?

Political Prisoners?

In "Prison City," Wisconsin, white elected officials are representing voting districts made up mostly of prisoners. Those prisoners are disproportionately black and brown. Oh, and they can't actually vote.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

29:1702/10/2019

The Original Blexit

The Original Blexit

How is it that the party of Lincoln became anathema to black voters? It's a messy story, exemplified in the doomed friendship between Richard Nixon and his fellow Republican, Jackie Robinson.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

35:0925/09/2019

The Black Table In The Big Tent

The Black Table In The Big Tent

Black Republicans are basically unicorns — they might just be the biggest outliers in American two-party politics. So who are these folks who've found a home in the GOP's lily-white big tent? And what can they teach us about the ways we all cast our ballots?Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

01:00:0818/09/2019

A Tale Of Two School Districts

A Tale Of Two School Districts

In many parts of the U.S., public school districts are just minutes apart, but have vastly different racial demographics — and receive vastly different funding. That's in part due to Milliken v. Bradley, a 1974 Supreme Court case that limited a powerful tool for school integration.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

29:0711/09/2019

'20 And Odd. Negroes'

'20 And Odd. Negroes'

In August of 1619, a British ship landed near Jamestown, Virginia with dozens of enslaved Africans — the first black people in the colonies that would be come the United States. Four hundred years later, some African Americans are still looking to Jamestown in search of home and a lost history.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

35:3728/08/2019

All That Glisters Is Not Gold

All That Glisters Is Not Gold

It's a widely accepted truth: reading Shakespeare is good for you. But what should we do with all of the bigoted themes in his work? We talk to a group of high schoolers who put on the Merchant Of Venice as a way to interrogate anti-Semitism, and then we ask an expert if that's a good idea.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

31:2821/08/2019

Dora's Lasting Magic

Dora's Lasting Magic

Nickelodeon's Dora The Explorer helped usher in a wave of multicultural children's programming in the U.S. Our friends at Latino USA tell the story of how the show pushed back against anti-immigrant rhetoric — and why Dora's character still matters.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

37:4714/08/2019

After The Cameras Leave

After The Cameras Leave

Five years ago, the death of an unarmed black teenager brought the town of Ferguson, Mo. to the center of a national conversation about policing in black communities. Since then, what's changed, if anything, in Ferguson?Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

27:1507/08/2019

Puerto Ricans Stand Up

Puerto Ricans Stand Up

It took less than two weeks for Puerto Ricans to topple their governor following the publication of unsavory private text messages. We tell the story of how small protests evolved into a political uprising unlike anything the island had ever seen.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

24:5131/07/2019

Chicago's Red Summer

Chicago's Red Summer

Almost exactly 100 years ago, race riots broke out all across the United States. The Red Summer, as it came to be known, occurred in more than two dozen cities across the nation, including Chicago, where black soldiers returning home from World War I refused to be treated as second class citizens.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

18:5024/07/2019

Oh So Now It's Racist?

Oh So Now It's Racist?

This week, an argument about what to call President Trump's rhetoric. NPR editors Mark Memmott and Keith Woods offer different ideas for how news organizations should try to stay credible.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

25:0017/07/2019

The Return Of Race Science

The Return Of Race Science

In the 19th century it was mainstream science to believe in a racial hierarchy. But after WWII, the scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. We speak to author Angela Saini, who says that race science is back.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

21:4310/07/2019

America's Concentration Camps?

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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

27:1803/07/2019

Some Of The People Knew Magic

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 After Stonewall," features works from from queer artists of color who were born in the years after Stonewall. We talked to four of them.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

26:4026/06/2019

Code Switch Book Club: Summer 2019

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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

25:4219/06/2019

E Ola Ka 'Olelo Hawai'i

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 Language Shall Live!!!)Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

25:5612/06/2019

The Original 'Welfare Queen'

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 one outlier's story to turn the public against government programs for the poor.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

31:1105/06/2019

Salt Fat Acid Race

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 perceived as being at odds with each other.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

23:4329/05/2019

Dispatches From The Schoolyard

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 mic over to student podcasters, who told us about the big issues shaping their nascent identities.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

30:1022/05/2019

Anger: The Black Woman's 'Superpower'

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 successful, powerful ones.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

19:2915/05/2019

We Don't Say That

We Don't Say That

France is the place where for decades you weren't supposed to talk about someone's blackness, unless you said it in English. Today, we're going to meet the people who took a very French approach to change that. (Note: This story contains strong language in English and French.)Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

44:0708/05/2019

You Say Chicano, I Say...

You Say Chicano, I Say...

When members of the nation's oldest Mexican-American student organization voted to change its name, it revealed generational tensions around the past, present, and future of the Chicano movement.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

20:3001/05/2019

Poets, The Life Boats

Poets, The Life Boats

April is National Poetry Month, so on this episode, we're passing the mic to a handful of talented poets — the people who narrate our lives and help us better understand our own experiences.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

35:3824/04/2019

Can the Go-Go Go On?

Can the Go-Go Go On?

For more than two decades, a cellphone store in Washington, D.C. has blasted go-go music right outside of its front door. But a recent noise complaint from a resident of a new, upscale apartment building in the area brought the music to a halt — highlighting the tensions over gentrification in the nation's capital.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

29:1017/04/2019

Love & Walkouts

Love & Walkouts

In 1968, thousands of students participated in a series of protests for equity in education that sparked the Chicano Movement. But for two of the students at one struggling high school, that civil unrest — which became known as East L.A. Walkouts — also marked the beginning of a 50-year romance. This week, Code Switch is cosigning that love story, brought to us by our play-cousins at Latino USA.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

33:0910/04/2019

Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Israel?

Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Israel?

Support for Israel has long been the rare bipartisan position among lawmakers in Washington. But recently, several younger, brown members of Congress have vocally questioned the U.S.'s relationship with Israel — and were met with fierce condemnation, including charges that their criticism was anti-Semitic. On this episode: We're talking about why it remains so hard to have nuanced conversations about Israel.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

38:4905/04/2019

Ask Code Switch: You Are What You Eat

Ask Code Switch: You Are What You Eat

This week, we tackle reader questions on vegetarianism, the specter of grocery store Columbuses, and the quiet opprobrium directed at "smelly ethnic foods" in the workplace.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

32:2927/03/2019

'On Strike! Blow It Up!'

'On Strike! Blow It Up!'

Fifty years ago, a multiracial coalition of students at a commuter college in San Francisco went on strike. And while their bloody, bitter standoff has been largely forgotten, it forever changed higher education in the United States.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

37:2420/03/2019

Respect Yourself

Respect Yourself

What does "civility" look like and who gets to define it? What about "respectable" behavior? This week, we're looking at how behavior gets policed in public.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

32:1313/03/2019

When Disaster Strikes

When Disaster Strikes

A deadly tornado ripped through Lee County Alabama this past Sunday. An NPR investigation found that white Americans and those with safety nets often receive more federal dollars after a disaster than people of color and Americans with less wealth.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

22:2306/03/2019

On The Shoulders Of Giants

On The Shoulders Of Giants

When Colin Kaepernick stopped standing for the national anthem at NFL games it sparked a nationwide conversation about patriotism and police brutality. Black athletes using their platform to protest injustice has long been a tradition in American history. In this episode we tap in our friends at Throughline to explore three stories of protest that are rarely told but essential to understanding the current debate: the heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson, the sprinter Wilma Rudolph, and the basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

40:4127/02/2019

Getting A Foot In the Door

Getting A Foot In the Door

Anali, a young woman from Los Angeles, wants to break into the film industry. A local program taught her the skills of the trade and the language, but will any of that that matter in an industry that runs mostly on connections?Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

23:5121/02/2019

From Blackface To Blackfishing

From Blackface To Blackfishing

Okay, news cycle: you win. We're talking about blackface. This week, we delve into the hidden history of "blackening up" in popular culture — from a certain iconic cartoon mouse's minstrel past to Instagram models trying to pass as black.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

28:1813/02/2019

We're Going To Start A Dialogue...Again.

We're Going To Start A Dialogue...Again.

Another week of racial controversies, another week of calls to "start a dialogue on race." What does that even mean? We talk to two veterans of one high-profile attempt at a national conversation on race, who have different views of its effectiveness.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

27:0307/02/2019

Pretty Hurts

Pretty Hurts

Some may think of beauty as frivolous and fun, but on this episode, we're examining a few of the ugly ways that its been used to project power.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

47:3230/01/2019

Intrigue At The Census Bureau

Intrigue At The Census Bureau

Another day, another drama: Last week, a federal judge ruled against the Trump administration's decision to add a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census. But if the Justice Department has any say, the fight will go on...all the way to the Supreme Court.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

29:5524/01/2019

Perfect Son

Perfect Son

Jason Kim and his father were once very close, but drifted apart after the family came to the United States from Korea. They drifted even further after Jason came out to his parents as gay. But after a health crisis, Jason and his father try to reckon with the silence between them. This week, a story about a family's hopes, dreams, and obligations, brought to us by the dope folks at WNYC's Nancy podcast.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

38:0916/01/2019

The Return

The Return

Meet one of the people caught up in the Trump Administration's hard-line stance on immigration: Javier Zamora. He was living in the US legally under Temporary Protected Status but when the White House threatened to take it away, Javier went back to El Salvador to apply for a new visa. He didn't know if he'd ever return to the US, his home of nearly twenty years.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

34:5109/01/2019

America's Other Anthems

America's Other Anthems

This week, we're uncovering the stories behind three American Anthems. First, we hear from two musical greats about their respective versions of "Fight the Power." Next, we learned about the transformation of the children's choir staple, "This Little Light of Mine." Finally, we took a trip down "Whittier Blvd."Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

30:3202/01/2019

Race Underneath The Skin

Race Underneath The Skin

Spit into a tube and get in touch with your ancestors! Or not. This week we're revisiting a conversation about DNA, and what it tells us about who we are.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

31:3726/12/2018

Code Switch Goes To College

Code Switch Goes To College

A professor at the University of Texas San Antonio designed a college course based around episodes of the Code Switch podcast! In it, her students learned how to have tough conversations about race and identity, using Shereen and Gene as an example. But after an incident on campus involving the police made national news, their theoretical classroom discussions stopped being polite and started getting real.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

26:1619/12/2018

Code Switch Book Club

Code Switch Book Club

We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holiday season.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

30:3112/12/2018