My guests today are experts in the importance of the face and face coverings in the ways society works, and in the production of bias. We talk face masks, race, politics, injustice, and the possibilities for reform.

Sharrona Pearl is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Drexel University.  A historian and theorist of the face and body, Pearl’s most recent book is _Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other_.  She publishes widely for a public audience, most recently in the Washington Post.  Follow her on twitter @sharronapearl.

Rashawn Ray is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at The Brookings Institution. He is also an Associate Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Recently, Ray published the book How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work (with Pamela Braboy Jackson) and another edition of Race and Ethnic Relations in the 21st Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy.

COVIDCalls 5.15.2020 Sharrona Pearl and Rashawn Ray--facemasks, race, & injustice in COVID-19

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