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Episode 39: A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White Part 9)

  • May 31, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

In 1919, a white mob forced the entire black population of Corbin, Kentucky, to leave, at gunpoint. It was one of many racial expulsions in the United States. What happened, and how such racial cleansings…

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Episode 38: Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)

  • May 17, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.  …

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Episode 37: Chenjerai’s Challenge (Seeing White, Part 7)

  • May 5, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

“How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Chenjerai Kumanyika puts that question to host John Biewen, as they revisit an unfinished conversation from a previous episode. Part 7 of our series, Seeing…

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Episode 36: That’s Not Us, So We’re Clean (Seeing White, Part 6)

  • April 26, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. Host John Biewen spoke with some white Southern…

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Episode 35: Little War on the Prairie (Seeing White, Part 5)

  • April 12, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

Growing up in Mankato, Minnesota, John Biewen heard next to nothing about the town’s most important historical event. In 1862, Mankato was the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history – the hanging…

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Episode 34: On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4)

  • March 30, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. But what did those words mean to the man who…

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Episode 33: Made in America (Seeing White, Part 3)

  • March 16, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American slavery are inseparable from the…

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Episode 32: How Race Was Made (Seeing White, Part 2)

  • March 1, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

For much of human history, people viewed themselves as members of tribes or nations but had no notion of “race.” Today, science deems race biologically meaningless. Who invented race as we know it, and why?…

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Episode 31: Turning the Lens (Seeing White, Part 1)

  • February 15, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

Events of the past few years have turned a challenging spotlight on White people, and Whiteness, in the United States. An introduction to our series exploring what it means to be White. By John Biewen,…

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Episode 30: Movement Time

  • January 25, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

  Facts can be ignored by the powers that be and still ignite a movement. An interview with Tim Tyson, author of the new book, The Blood of Emmett Till. Tyson was the first historian…

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