Uncharted Episode 19: Black elephants in the room

What do you think about when you hear about African-American Republicans? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all Blacks must vote democratic? Or are they sell-outs, letting down their race? In 2016, before the November election, Corey Fields, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, published a book titled Black Elephan ts in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans. In October 2016 Fields sat down with media innovator Peter Leyden at Uncharted Festival of Ideas in Berkeley to talk about what it's really like to be a Black person in the Republican Party. Every year in Berkeley , Uncharted draws together some of the world's leading thinkers for conversations that provoke , entertain, and attempt to shift the needle towards a better future. Uncharted is produced by Berkeley's independent news site, Berkeleyside .

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Uncharted Episode 19: Black elephants in the room is an episode from Berkeleyside Podcast by Berkeleyside.

This episode is 33:32 long.

This episode was published on Jul 6, 2017.

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