#003: The "Recorded Before Certain Events in Baltimore" Episode.
Hosts Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby discuss the first season of ABC’s ‘Fresh off the Boat’; the complicated politics of whites adopting racial identities that are not their own; and the social media phenomenon of the Dixon Challenge.

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Fresh Off the Boat

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Dixon D. White's Racism Challenge

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Jeb Bush, Elizabeth Warren, Just Passing? Race as Construct

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