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Radio 4,24 Sep 2024,6 mins,

The origins of racial terms like “coconut”

AntiSocial
Contains very strong language.

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Jonathan Rosa, an associate professor at Stanford University who researches language and race, talks through the evolution of words and phrases used to claim people are being ethnically inauthentic.

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