Solidarity

Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor is joined by Jennifer Chudy, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, Boston, who discusses her pioneering exploration of racial sympathy. She looks at the reasons why racial inequality in America prompts distress amongst some white people, but not others and why does that sympathy, not translate into solidarity and political action? Andrea Sangiovanni, Professor of Philosophy at Kings College, London explores the nature of solidarity and how definitions have changed. Calls for solidarity are heard everywhere but what does it mean, in practice, and how is it distinct from altruism, justice and fellow-feeling?

Producer: Jayne Egerton