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Seg 1: Proposed Law Aims To Deter Scrap Metal Thieves. Seg. 2: How White Kids Learn About Race.

The lucrative scrap metal trade could be encouraging theft in Kansas City, Missouri.
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The lucrative scrap metal trade could be encouraging theft in Kansas City, Missouri.

Segment 1: Proposed ordinance looks to reduce theft associated with scrap metal recycling.

In 2015, the scrap metal industry was worth close to $40 billion. With the current tariffs against steel and aluminum, those figures could go even higher. The lure of good money for copper, iron, platinum and other metals has its critics who say it encourages theft, and, recently, the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council has been examining the possibility of an ordinance that would impose harsher restrictions around the sale of scrap metal. Today, we talked with the KCUR reporter who has been following the story.


Segment 2, beginning at 18:22: What white kids of privilege learn about race and racism could change, or perpetuate, the narrative of racial inequality in this country.

A two-year ethnographic study of upper middle-class white families looked at how the children learn about race. Findings showed that even when race is never discussed in the family, parents communicate a number of ideas about it to their offspring and what they say matters much less than what they do. Today, the sociologist behind this research described her observations from her time with the families.

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Steve Kraske is an associate teaching professor of journalism at UMKC, a political columnist for The Kansas City Star and has hosted "Up to Date" since 2002. He worked as the full-time political correspondent for The Star from 1994-2013 covering national, state and local campaigns. He also has covered the statehouses in Topeka and Jefferson City.
Danette (Danie) Alexander first came to KCUR in 2007 as an intern for Up to Date after completing her B.A. in Communications at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. After her KCUR internship was completed, Danie continued to spend her mornings assisting senior producer Stephen Steigman as a volunteer with the show. Her radio experience also includes stints with public radio's New Letters on the Air as a broadcast engineer and on local public radio as host of a weekly overnight call-in show.