Trust and Poverty with Brittney Cooper

Why is trusting poor people so controversial? Dr. Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage and professor at Rutgers, sits down with Aisha Nyandoro to discuss respectability politics and the ways poor Black women have had to perform worthiness just to be treated as legitimate.

Everyone’s Doing the South with Tressie McMillan Cottom

What's underneath the rest of the country treating the South as backward? Sociologist and New York Times contributor Tressie McMillan Cottom argues it's a ruse to help Americans avoid reckoning with their own faults. It also erases the massive contributions the South made to turn the US into a global superpower. A conversation about race, Southern identity, and American history with host Aisha Nyandoro.