White v. White?

Invisibilia

• Episode: White v. White?
• Website: Invisibilia
• Feed URL: https://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510307
• Duration: 01:02:31
• Published: 2020-04-03 09:03

A city council candidate says he's black. But his opponent accuses him of being a white man pretending to be black. If race is simply a social construct and not a biological reality, how do we determine someone's race? And who gets to decide? We tell the story of a man whose racial identity was fiercely contested... and the consequences this had on an entire city. | To learn more about this episode, subscribe to our newsletter. Click here to learn more about NPR sponsors.