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If you’re looking for a new podcast to fill your extra waking hours, cultural critic Rebecca Carroll launched one this week: Come Through came out yesterday on WNYC; it features interviews with “great thinkers, writers, and artists about faith, representation, white fragility, and how it’s all playing out in 2020.” As Carroll pointed out in an interview with WNYC’s All of It, a podcast about race is as crucial as ever in the midst of a pandemic:
Disaster and crisis tend to bring race and racism to the fore. With the coronavirus pandemic, we’re seeing an uptick in anti-Asian-American racism in the same way that Muslim folks — or people that appeared Muslim — were targeted following 9/11. It really comes down to who has access, whose lives matter and deserve priority, in very specific and structural…
