Creator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (IDE), Executive Producer and host of The IDE Impolite Conversation Podcast, Lezli Levene Harvell begins a new theme exploring Hamburgers and Hot Dogs Are German...You Know That Right? Which explores Ethnic As A Descriptive, Other Coded Language, and Who Gets To Be American. Over the course of five episodes, Lezli and her guests will explore this theme through whiteness, the evolution of the US racial construct during and post the civil rights movement, who gets to be an American, the selective use of the word ethnic, parallels in the LGBTQ community, and how this plays out in marketing and in the media. 

In the first episode Lezli is joined by Dr. Matthew Frye Jacobson, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History and a professor of African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of seven books on race, politics, and culture in the United States two of which are: Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race as well as Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America. The two of them discuss hamburgers, hotdogs, pathways to Whiteness for certain European immigrant groups, the myth of Ellis Island, the iconic film Rocky, and some of the United States’ earliest use of the word ethnic.

Relevant and Recommended Reads: 

• Whiteness of A Different Color by Matthew Frye Jacobson
• The Anti-Racist Reading List
• Analysis | Sorry, but the Irish were always ‘white’ (and so were Italians, Jews and so on)

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Podcast Team = Lezli Levene Harvell (Host & Executive Producer) / Rez Nemorin (Producer) / Justin Bates (Sound Engineer) 

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