In the lead up to the election, WNYC and the Nation are producing The United States of Anxiety, a series aimed at exploring the lives and stories of “people trying to hold on to their piece of the American Dream and others who are looking to build one.”
The latest episode, “White Like Me,” dives into experiences of race, dreams and perceptions of some Long Island, and it features Murphy Prof. Joshua Freeman. Prof. Freeman describes how party politics in early US history helped produce the existing racial dynamics in the United States — and also set the tone for the spectacle-like politics we experience today.
