Podcast appearances and mentions of betsy leondar wright

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Betsy Leondar-Wright, co-author of Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Two questions that seem simple on their face, but which invite a host of tangled responses. In this book, Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright offer a new way of understanding how inequalities persist by focusing on the individual judgment calls that lead us to decide what's racist, what's sexist, and what's not.Betsy Leondar-Wright, PhD, has been a community organizer, a diversity workshop facilitator, and a sociology professor teaching critical race theory and economic inequality. She is co-author of The Color of Wealth (2006), among other publications. Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media: Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreview Instagram - @diverse_voices_book_review Twitter - @diversebookshay Email: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.com 

More than 10 years ago I interviewedBetsy Leondar-Wright about her superb book, Missing Class, and today we'll visit with her about the book she researched and wrote with Jessi Streib called Is It Racist?

Part 1:We talk with Betsy Leondar Wright, Sociologist, researcher and social justice activist.We discuss with the perceptions of Americans about the concept of racism and sexism. Leondar Wright's book "Is It Racism? Is It Sexism/" discusses the survey that was held, and she discusses the results of the survey, and the implications for our society.Part 2:We talk with Jonathan Feingold, Professor of Law at Boston University about race, as part of the Race Class.#RaceClass Ep. 38 | Why are all the universities folding to Trump?In this episode, Arnie and Jon explore why so many universities have voluntarily scrubbed websites and shuttered still lawful and mission critical diversity, equity and inclusion programs. We discuss why President Trump's anti-DEI measures are themselves legally suspect--in part because Trump's war on DEI rests on and reinforces the bankrupt notion that women and people of color are presumptively incompetent.Jonathan FeingoldAssociate Professor of LawBoston University School of Lawjfeingol@bu.edu|#RaceClass Podcast|research Music: From David Rovics, “The Richest Man in the World Says So”, 2025

Betsy Leondar-Wright, co-author of “Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?: Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas” investigates how people determine if […] The post How Do We See Things as Sexist or Racist? appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

Imagine being shown a two-frame storyboard depicting in the first drawing a white police officer having shot a black man holding a cellphone. In the second frame the officer tells his supervisor that he saw a gun and that he was sure that he fired on a white person if they had made the same threatening gesture. Then you are asked to make a judgement call; “Does this story involve racism?” This is the approach sociologist Betsy Leondar-Wright and Jessi Streib take in their book “Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?: Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas.” They bring the proceeding scenario and others like it to over 120 white Americans of different political stripes, genders, regions, and economic classes.

In her new book titled Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas co-author Betsy Leondar-Wright, through remarkable research, found Trumpists are not all racist and sexist The post We Thought We Knew Racism and Sexism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

1/13/25: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: in frigid weather, protecting the most vulnerable. Bill & Buz: Trump”s coming kakistocracy. Betsy Leondar-Wright: "Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?" Megan Zinn w/ Broadside Bookshop's Roz Kreshak-Hayden: 2024 faves & 2025's best reads.

1/13/25: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: in frigid weather, protecting the most vulnerable. Bill & Buz: Trump”s coming kakistocracy. Betsy Leondar-Wright: "Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?" Megan Zinn w/ Broadside Bookshop's Roz Kreshak-Hayden: 2024 faves & 2025's best reads.

1/13/25: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: in frigid weather, protecting the most vulnerable. Bill & Buz: Trump”s coming kakistocracy. Betsy Leondar-Wright: "Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?" Megan Zinn w/ Broadside Bookshop's Roz Kreshak-Hayden: 2024 faves & 2025's best reads.

1/13/25: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: in frigid weather, protecting the most vulnerable. Bill & Buz: Trump”s coming kakistocracy. Betsy Leondar-Wright: "Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?" Megan Zinn w/ Broadside Bookshop's Roz Kreshak-Hayden: 2024 faves & 2025's best reads.

1/13/25: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: in frigid weather, protecting the most vulnerable. Bill & Buz: Trump”s coming kakistocracy. Betsy Leondar-Wright: "Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?" Megan Zinn w/ Broadside Bookshop's Roz Kreshak-Hayden: 2024 faves & 2025's best reads.

1/13/25: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: in frigid weather, protecting the most vulnerable. Bill & Buz: Trump”s coming kakistocracy. Betsy Leondar-Wright: "Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?" Megan Zinn w/ Broadside Bookshop's Roz Kreshak-Hayden: 2024 faves & 2025's best reads.

1/13/25: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: in frigid weather, protecting the most vulnerable. Bill & Buz: Trump”s coming kakistocracy. Betsy Leondar-Wright: "Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?" Megan Zinn w/ Broadside Bookshop's Roz Kreshak-Hayden: 2024 faves & 2025's best reads.

Jessi Streib is Associate Professor of sociology at Duke University and the co-recipient of the 2023 Early Career Award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of the American Sociological Association. She is author of four books, including Is it Racist? Is it Sexist? Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas, co-authored with Betsy Leondar-Wright, which comes out in 2025 and is available for pre-order. We discuss this book, and the questions it raises about how to diagnose and address injustice, and tensions between this and other societal objectives. The views expressed by Jessi on this episode are hers alone and do not necessarily reflect those of her coauthor.

In this episode, you'll learn about some easy actions you can take to help researchers address the lack of philanthropic investment in the nonprofit workforce, and the burnout that results from that deficit of investment. Host Rusty Stahl sits down with Betsy Leondar-Wright, Project Director of Staffing the Mission. Launched in 2019, Staffing the Mission works to make life better for diverse nonprofit employees, and is a program of Class Action, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that “inspires action to end classism and extreme inequality.” Staffing the Mission partners with Fund the People as we both seek to address poor working conditions in the nonprofit sector. Staffing the Mission has a survey of funders in the field (in partnership with Fund the People) to understand the grantmaker perspective and role in nonprofit workforce issues. They also have an opportunity for nonprofit workers to candidly share their own burnout stories. Betsy discusses both of these important efforts in the episode. You can find resources mentioned in this episode, along with a transcript, on the episode show notes page. Find all the episodes of this podcast and other resources on our website, fundthepeople.org. In this episode we explore Talent-Investing Principle #3: Address the Problem, Not Just the Symptoms. To hear all 8 Principles of Talent-Investing, listen to Season 3 Episode 1. And we invite you to learn from all the amazing past guests of Fund the People - A Podcast with Rusty Stahl. All resources & links mentioned in the show can be found on our show notes page from the episode or at fundthepeople.org/ftp_podcast.

The reality of class division and the breakdown of the community is how the ruling class win. Can you join Betsy Leondar-Wright from Class Action and the Root Causes team, as we explore how classism affects movement spaces and how we can ensure a multi-class, multi-race, multi-generational movement to end all forms of oppression?

Financial Wellness and Money Behavior In this episode, herdacious host Lorelei chats with Eugenié George about the crossroads of finance and mental health. Eugenié teaches us what financial wellness is: Understanding our learned behaviors and current fiscal tools. As we begin to discover which financial strategies best suit our individual needs, Eugenié reminds us that, while we must always be economically conscious, our past doesn’t have to hold us back.Host: Lorelei GonzalezCo-host: Eugenié George, MBA, CFEIEugenié George is a financial wellness specialist and author. A master at mindset, Eugenié teaches and coaches a wide range of individuals. Through research, practice, and creativity, taking the anxiety out of math and money, Eugenié has worked on a new way of financial wellness through her recent book Our Money Stories. When she’s not studying or working out, you can catch her watching an abnormal amount of dance choreography videos!Things you will learn in this episode (chapter markers available): Types of money behaviors 4:15Disempowering messages 8:30Money-demographic relationship 10:02 Negative effects of ACE study 15:30What is financial wellness? 19:30Begin your financial wellness path 23:30Challenges for women of color 28:20Femme fact: Audre Lorde 33:35Resources mentioned in this episode: Onthegoga.com "The Color of Wealth" by Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, and Rose BrewerTedTalk by Dr. Burke Harris (ACE study)8 Financial Wellness Dimensions (research study)Clever Girl FinanceLatinX therapy (podcast)Brunch & Budget (podcast)“Power” by Audre LordeLink to show transcript here.Episode sponsors: HERdacity Moonray Looking for additional resources on this topic? Check out our blog “The Easy Budget Guide For Women”Loved what you heard on herdacious and want to share with friends? Tag us and connect with HERdacity on social media:Twitter: @herdacityFacebook: @HERdacity Instagram: @herdacityLinkedIn: HERdacity For up to date information on HERdacity events, webinars, podcasts, and community activities, join our newsletter here. Disclaimer: While we appreciate our sponsors' support in making this show possible, herdacious content is curated with integrity and honesty.Support the show (http://herdacity.org/donate/)

Nonprofit groups are at the forefront of care for the homeless, hungry, needy & oppressed. Given the deep compassion and connection of these non-profits, it is all the more remarkable how often their own staffs face issues of equity and near-poverty wages. Among those looking for a solution to this conundrum are Betsy Leondar-Wright, Anastasia Lynge, & other members of the organization Class Action.

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes back Betsy Leondar-Wright, Economic Justice Activist and author, to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss what she has coming up this year and the conversations she is hoping to spark through her work.

Most activists recognize the strength to social action groups of drawing power from across the racial and sex/gender landscape, but too few recognize the key effects of class. In Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures, Betsy Leondar-Wright shines a focused light on the opportunities for pulling together as never before, by seeing the many ways in which social class impacts our thoughts, actions, and organizing.

Gender and race are visible markers of identity, regularly talked about both in the news and sociology circles. There is another marker, however, that is just as important and predictive, but much less visible – social class.  In Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups (Cornell University Press, 2014), Betsy Leondar-Wright attempts to bring class to the forefront of the conversation by describing how belonging to a particular social class can affect interaction within social movement groups.  She classifies a number of “class cultures” based primarily on formal education and occupation, such as lifelong working-class, lifelong professional middle class, voluntarily downwardly mobile and upwardly mobile class.  Through a comprehensive study of 25 activist groups, Leondar-Wright discovers that class, more than gender or race or age in many cases, greatly predicts attitude and behavior (the way one deals with conflict or the way one speaks, as examples).  Acknowledging class differences in social activist groups can help to ease communication and better use the strengths that each particular class culture can offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gender and race are visible markers of identity, regularly talked about both in the news and sociology circles. There is another marker, however, that is just as important and predictive, but much less visible – social class.  In Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups (Cornell University Press, 2014), Betsy Leondar-Wright attempts to bring class to the forefront of the conversation by describing how belonging to a particular social class can affect interaction within social movement groups.  She classifies a number of “class cultures” based primarily on formal education and occupation, such as lifelong working-class, lifelong professional middle class, voluntarily downwardly mobile and upwardly mobile class.  Through a comprehensive study of 25 activist groups, Leondar-Wright discovers that class, more than gender or race or age in many cases, greatly predicts attitude and behavior (the way one deals with conflict or the way one speaks, as examples).  Acknowledging class differences in social activist groups can help to ease communication and better use the strengths that each particular class culture can offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gender and race are visible markers of identity, regularly talked about both in the news and sociology circles. There is another marker, however, that is just as important and predictive, but much less visible – social class.  In Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups (Cornell University Press, 2014), Betsy Leondar-Wright attempts to bring class to the forefront of the conversation by describing how belonging to a particular social class can affect interaction within social movement groups.  She classifies a number of “class cultures” based primarily on formal education and occupation, such as lifelong working-class, lifelong professional middle class, voluntarily downwardly mobile and upwardly mobile class.  Through a comprehensive study of 25 activist groups, Leondar-Wright discovers that class, more than gender or race or age in many cases, greatly predicts attitude and behavior (the way one deals with conflict or the way one speaks, as examples).  Acknowledging class differences in social activist groups can help to ease communication and better use the strengths that each particular class culture can offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode will feature a live discussion with Betsy Leondar-Wright author of Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures. Betsy is an economic justice activist, sociologist, and author, who writes on class and economic inequality. She has a PhD in Sociology from Boston College and she is a former Communications Director for United for a Fair Economy.  As always, we offer news, commentary and analysis important to progressives and liberals across America. This is a must-add to your can't-miss directory of Progressive Podcasts or Liberal Podcasts. Monday night's episodes are hosted by Indiana writer Dan Bimrose and sociologist Keith Brekhus from Montana.  If you are interested in being a guest and for any other inquiries or comments concerning the show please contact Naomi Minogue at naomi@liberalfixradio.com. Liberal Fix Website Liberal Fix Facebook Liberal Fix Twitter

Progressive and social activists are too often portrayed as latte drinking,  sushi eating,  Volvo driving, arugula eating, white wine sipping, Birkenstock wearing, NPR listening, New York Times reading, tofu eating…etc.  You get the idea.  This isn’t just another ordinary line of attack,  because what it does, what it means to do, is to drive a wedge between classes.  Class groups that often have common goals, shared values, and a true desire to solve real problems.But the attacks often work because sometimes the leaders of social movements themselves, forget that while goals may be shared, many groups and different classes bring very different experiences and approaches along with different worldviews to solve similar problems.So how can this circle be squared?  How can these groups not work against their self interest in a “What’s the Matter with Kansas,” kind of way?  Betsy Leondar-Wright gets to the core of the problem and potential solutions in her new book Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups.My conversation with Betsy Leondar-Wright: