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On July 8th, Prof.<\/strong> Kristen Syrett<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>was interviewed for a Yahoo! Life<\/strong> article, titled: “From ‘master bedroom’ to ‘blacklist’: What will it take to change racist terms in our everyday language?<\/a><\/strong><\/span>“. If you’d like to read it, this article can be found here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

More recently, Prof.<\/strong> Syrett<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>was\u00a0also<\/em>\u00a0interviewed by Robin Young for a segment on NPR’s Here & Now<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, which aired on July 23rd. The title of this segment is, “The Language of Racism: Why It’s Time to Get Rid of Master Bedroom, Cake Walk, Grandfather Clause<\/a><\/strong><\/span>“. If you’d like to listen to it for free, you can do so here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And last but not least, Prof.<\/strong> Syrett<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is in a third article about racism in language, this time by ABC News<\/strong><\/a>! Published on July 30th, it’s titled, “Here are some commonly used terms that actually have racist origins<\/a><\/span><\/strong>“. <\/span>You can find that article here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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