Carrie Sotro's Journey To Responsiveness, Don't Call Me White, Call Me Italian Series, Part 1 of 3, Season 6, Episode 12

Carrie Sotro's Journey To Responsiveness, Don't Call Me White, Call Me Italian Series, Part 1 of 3, Season 6, Episode 12

From Outrageous Love the Podcast: Our Journeys to Responsiveness by Dr. Hollie

March 20, 2026 · 1h 17m · Season 6 · Episode 12

About this episode

The episode features Carrie Sotro discussing her cultural identity as an Italian educator and the conflation of race and culture in society.

Who knew that Italian immigrants worked the grape crops in California? The final episode of season 6 begins a new series focusing on how we, the macro-society and pretty much all forms of media, conflate race and culture non-stop. For this series, we look specifically at educators who are Caucasian (or white racially) but are not white culturally. Hence, don't call me white, call me _____. Listen in to the journey of Carrie Sotro, proud Italian and CLR educator extraordinaire. Carrie's Italia...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Hollie

Guest: Carrie Sotro

Topics covered

  • Italian immigrants
  • race and culture
  • education
  • Caucasian educators
  • cultural identity

Keywords

  • Italian immigrants
  • California grape crops
  • race and culture
  • Caucasian educators
  • cultural identity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CLR

Books & works: Don't Call Me White, Call Me Italian

Places: California

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