Black and Brown in Europe So White Podcast
Jul 28, 2026 · 55 min · 10 segments
In Europe, the concept of “summer” feels almost like a fundamental right. For several weeks, shops close up and cities empty out as workers and families undertake their annual traditions of checking…
Shada IslamHost
Emmanuel AchiriHostWilliam Noah GluckroftHost
And we wanted to do this because I think all of us have read some spectacular scholars and fiction writers and authors.
And when I was thinking of this podcast, I started thinking about all of the writers who have really influenced me and make me understand what is happening in Europe today, in the world today as well.
But a better insight and reading them, reading Edward Said, Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Amos Cesar, but also the modern ones, you know, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Abraham Kendi, and of course also Kimberle Crenshaw, you realize that we have been forewarned.
All of these spectacular brains have been telling us over the years that this is what's going to happen if we're not careful on issues to do with fascism, colonialism, the long shadow.
that it still casts on our foreign policy, our trade policy, our development policy, on racism, Islamophobia, and of course this terrible theory, the great replacement theory.
And so reading all of that, it's so clear that many of our leaders haven't read them.
Many of our politicians are ignorant of history and haven't read the real people that they need to read.
Because when you do read these books, your mind sort of starts opening and it's a magical feeling.
Isn't it, William? This feeling that you are understood and that somebody knows more about what's going to happen and is warning you, telling you, cautious, be careful.
You know, as I'm going, finishing up my master's program, and of course there's always this question of plagiarism in your work, and I actually don't understand plagiarism, because it's such a better feeling to know that you were part of a literature, you're part of an entire history, a lineage of people who have been thinking through arguments and thinking through problems of the world forever, and that there are no new ideas.
And to your point, there's something that's so really life-affirming when you're reading, whether it's an academic article or whether it's a book or whether it's just something out of the news, and an idea hits you and the things start connecting, the dots start connecting, and you can really, you sort of have an aha moment that, ah, And to know that you actually feel that it's lonely, right? Because I think one of the biggest problems in our European society today is how atomized and isolated we've all become and lonely.
And there's actually, for me, I get a great deal of connection when I read into history and read what people went through.
And I won't call it a hopeful feeling because you see the catastrophe that they faced and that we're facing.
And we wanted to do this because I think all of us have read some spectacular scholars and fiction writers and authors.
And when I was thinking of this podcast, I started thinking about all of the writers who have really influenced me and make me understand what is happening in Europe today, in the world today as well.
But a better insight and reading them, reading Edward Said, Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Amos Cesar, but also the modern ones, you know, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Abraham Kendi, and of course also Kimberle Crenshaw, you realize that we have been forewarned.
All of these spectacular brains have been telling us over the years that this is what's going to happen if we're not careful on issues to do with fascism, colonialism, the long shadow.
that it still casts on our foreign policy, our trade policy, our development policy, on racism, Islamophobia, and of course this terrible theory, the great replacement theory.
And so reading all of that, it's so clear that many of our leaders haven't read them.
Many of our politicians are ignorant of history and haven't read the real people that they need to read.
Because when you do read these books, your mind sort of starts opening and it's a magical feeling.
Isn't it, William? This feeling that you are understood and that somebody knows more about what's going to happen and is warning you, telling you, cautious, be careful.
You know, as I'm going, finishing up my master's program, and of course there's always this question of plagiarism in your work, and I actually don't understand plagiarism, because it's such a better feeling to know that you were part of a literature, you're part of an entire history, a lineage of people who have been thinking through arguments and thinking through problems of the world forever, and that there are no new ideas.
And to your point, there's something that's so really life-affirming when you're reading, whether it's an academic article or whether it's a book or whether it's just something out of the news, and an idea hits you and the things start connecting, the dots start connecting, and you can really, you sort of have an aha moment that, ah, And to know that you actually feel that it's lonely, right? Because I think one of the biggest problems in our European society today is how atomized and isolated we've all become and lonely.
And there's actually, for me, I get a great deal of connection when I read into history and read what people went through.
And I won't call it a hopeful feeling because you see the catastrophe that they faced and that we're facing.
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