Prejudice and Pride: Recent Episodes
Bob Fenster
A podcast on race and ethnicity in the United States run by students from Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough, New Jersey.
Listen to Komal Sarma, Izzy Volpe, and Jackie Ramirez talk about their queer identities, how their experiences are shaped and formed by their respective cultures, and how the larger queer community can do a better job of addressing the complicated ways in which queerness and culture intersect.
Jessica Galette, an American-born Haitian, talks about her culture and experience with her identity. With the help of her aunts and father, she proudly represents her heritage.
Intersectionality is a term that has been used frequently in discussions of discrimination and inequality. However, the term is often misdefined and its ideas are misunderstood. In this episode, host Manasvi Tata explores the history of the term and how it plays a role in our society.
Olivia Altidor and BSU leaders Jessica Galette and Nevaeh Towns discuss their experiences as Black students at Hillsborough High School. Sanjana Bhatta interviews Beverly Mills and Elaine Buck, authors of "If These Stones Could Talk," and Dr. Lacy Hunter, an instructor at Rutgers University for African American Studies, to learn about the struggles in learning Black history at school.
From patronizing remarks about college acceptances to interrogations about a students standardized test scores and GPA, affirmative action is one of the most hotly contested topics in the United States. In today’s episode of prejudice and pride, host Ray Fofana facilitates a discussion surrounding the harmful implications of the debate surrounding affirmative action for Black and Latinx students at HHS. We invite you to listen to the lived experiences of these students and engage in this dialogue as members of our community! Episode 5 is out now!
We’ve always talked about discrimination in schools, but is it really as prevalent as people make it out to be? We asked high school students to anonymously submit their encounters with discrimination, ranging from race and religion to gender identity. Join us, as we react to and offer our thoughts on the matter while shedding light on the impact these experiences have on students. Featuring Ruba Shaikh, Aadithya Gulyani, Hansini Wadan, Nia Smart, Ryan Leary, and Sheryl Thomas as they read and react to real-life experiences submitted by students regarding discrimination in school.
The idea and practice of interracial adoption may seem uncontroversial, but historically it has been a highly contested issue. Although interracial adoption rarely makes headlines or enters national conversations today, it still remains a complicated and even controversial topic. Explore Nadia Zydiak’s story as an interracial adoptee and find out what her story can tell us about interracial adoption as a whole.
Colorism has transcended many different communities for centuries. It is prejudice against someone with darker skin tone, typically within the same ethnicity or racial group. This episode covers how HHS students of different ethnicities deal with the problems that colorism brings, and how their experiences differ from others.
Samarth Ramaswamy investigates the diversity in the arts industry by sharing his personal experience, additional research, and an interview with Anya Shukla and Kathryn Lau, Co-Founders of The Colorization Collective.
Sanjana Bhatta examines the causes of low voter turnout among minority voters, including an interview with Toni Hendrix.
Host Gowri Nair, along with Nikhil Patel and Samarth Ramaswamy, discuss what it's like being and Indian-American teenager in Hillsborough, New Jersey, dealing with family pressures, code switching, and an array of other topics.
Prejudice & Pride and the Social Activism Club team up to celebrate the work of female artists and examine the issues they face.
The first in a series of unscripted, (largely) unedited chats conducted by members of Prejudice & Pride. Today's talk features Zora Wills, Olivia Altidor, Mel Quesada, and Izzy Volpe talking about intersectionality, religion, code-switching and more.
This episode explores the Indigenous Experience within the Hillsborough community and beyond through the lens of HHS student Bella Moya-Carneiro's experience. Join us as we talk about problems facing the Indigenous community on a national and international level, as well as Bella's everyday experiences and her own journey with Indigenous identity. Izzy Volpe and Bella also interview various high school teachers to better grasp issues with the school's curriculum when it comes to addressing Indigenous peoples, and the two also discuss and look for solutions to the various problems within curricula.
Melanie Quesada and Alec Ruiter explore the subject of implicit bias and the impossibility of being "color blind." Afanwi Numfor, the principal author of the episode, interviews HHS senior Anvitha Jalagam about her experience taking the Harvard Implicit Association Test.
Raina James investigates what role genetics and DNA play in racial identification. She interviews biologist Dr. Daniel Fairbanks of Utah Valley University, the author of Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race.
The debut episode of Prejudice and Pride provides introductions to our crew, key definitions, our reasons for creating the podcast, and a preview of upcoming episodes.