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Jan 2020
39m 36s

#182 — Unlearning Race

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris speaks with Thomas Chatterton Williams about the reality and politics of race. They discuss his book "Self Portrait in Black and White," race as a social and biological construct, the prospects of achieving a "post-racial" society, interracial marriage, and other topics.

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