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Race Debate - Meet the Guests:

by Hermela Aregawi @HermelaTV May 21, 2015 5:00PM ET

Africana Studies scholar Tricia Rose, TV host Larry Elder, & Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper, debate

Topics:
Race & Ethnicity
U.S.
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Larry Elder

Host, "The Larry Elder Show 

Author, “What's Race Got to Do with It?”


Wave a magic wand over the hearts of America and remove every smidgen of racism from white people... the problems that black America are facing still remain: crime, lot of kids born without fathers, no jobs.

Larry Elder

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Tricia Rose, Ph.D.

Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

Author, "Black Noise”

Author, “The Hip Hop Wars”


This isn’t about personal prejudice… Structural racism is what has replaced the predominant mode of racism in America... it’s a series of policies and practices that function with significant forms of discrimination at different levels.

Tricia Rose

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Brittney Cooper, Ph.D.

Scholar of race in popular culture

Africana Studies professor, Rutgers University

Contributing writer, Salon

What I don’t believe in is in the myth of my own exceptionalism... yes I excelled, I did very well... whether I had a good public school, whether I could afford college, whether there were jobs when I got out of college. Those are the things that made the structural difference.

Brittney Cooper

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