
The Roundtable
Joe Donahue, Sarah LaDuke
4.3from 163 ratings
- 1,834
- Episodes
- 1,776
- Transcribed
- 163
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 207K
- YouTube views
About The Roundtable
WAMC's The Roundtable is an award-winning, nationally recognized eclectic talk program. The show airs from 9 a.m. to noon each weekday and features news, interviews, in-depth discussion, music, theatre, and more!
- Publisher
- Joe Donahue, Sarah LaDuke
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Mar 2024
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
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21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kelly Lytle Hernandez's new book is 'Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control'

21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tim Scheld's new memoir is 'My Front Row Seat: A Newsman’s Journey'

21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
10/21/26 Panel
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Kelly Lytle Hernandez's new book is 'Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control'
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Sure. Another argument in this book is that between the early republic, the antebellum period and the 1930s, Congress, the Supreme Court, immigration law enforcement, administrators and enforcers created what I call a whites only immigration system. And that's not a literal term. It's really a conceptual tool that if we think about the Jim Crow era, the goal of whites only, no blacks allowed signs, in movie theaters or in segregated neighborhoods or in other businesses. The goal really wasn't keep all black folks out of a building or an area, but to regulate our entry into those areas as second class citizens, as workers in the kitchen, not as patrons at the front of the restaurant. […]
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- Kelly Lytle Hernandez
- Tim Scheld
- Robert Griffin
- Fred Hof
- Chris Koetzle
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- YouTube views
- 207,271
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 163 ratings
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 97
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