Ep. 117 South Africa After the Rainbow

<p>Duke Professor Anne-Maria Makhulu joins Dean Judith Kelley to compare the current racial and socioeconomic disparities of South Africa with the disparities that have been made increasingly apparent over the past decade in the United States. The scholars discuss the countries' similarities and differences with regards to the coronavirus response, responses to police violence, movements for racial equity, and more. Makhulu says that one lesson to be learned from this comparison is that "the intractable problems that South Africa confronts are in fact the same intractable problems that the United States confronts. And there has to be a conversation about the infrastructure of racism, which is economic [...]"</p> <p>Music: Blue Dot Sessions <a title= "http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/" href= "https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreemusicarchive.org%2Fmusic%2FBlue_Dot_Sessions%2F&token=ee7c6d-1-1607020315086" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener ugc">freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/</a></p> <p>Music licensed under Creative Commons Attribution <a title= "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/" href= "https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby%2F3.0%2Fus%2F&token=7f8ae1-1-1607020315086" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener ugc">creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/</a></p> <p>Learn more about the Sanford School of Public Policy: <a href= "https://sanford.duke.edu/">sanford.duke.edu</a></p>