{"id":268372,"date":"2025-10-01T05:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268372\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:24:13","slug":"why-nycs-zohran-mamdani-doesnt-fit-racial-boxes-and-thats-the-point-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268372\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NYC\u2019s Zohran Mamdani doesn\u2019t fit racial boxes \u2013 and that\u2019s the point | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text--deemphasize\">Podcast<\/strong>Podcast,  The Take<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">The New York City mayoral candidate is in the spotlight for his Ugandan heritage. What does it reveal about race in the US?<\/p>\n<p>Published On 1 Oct 20251 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Zohran Mamdani, born in Uganda and raised in New York, is in the lead to become the city\u2019s next mayor. His complex identity has sparked debate in the United States. From questions about race to immigrant experiences, his story is challenging the way Americans think about identity, politics, and who gets power.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Episode credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Kisaa Zehra and Marcos Bartolom\u00e9, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Melanie Marich, Duha Mosaad, Tracie Hunte, Farhan Rafid and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Kylene Kiang and Sar\u00ed el-Khalil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>@AJEPodcasts on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEPodcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajepodcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJEPodcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTwjZkiFu6LhzsLUKFkYO60I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PodcastPodcast, The Take The New York City mayoral candidate is in the spotlight for his Ugandan heritage. What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,72,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-268372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-us-canada","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115297246614133842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}