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S2 E14: Transformation (Seeing White, Part 14)

  • August 24, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

The concluding episode in our series, Seeing White. An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host John Biewen, with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Robin DiAngelo, and William “Sandy” Darity, Jr.  …

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S2 E13: White Affirmative Action

  • August 9, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

When it comes to U.S. government programs and support earmarked for the benefit of particular racial groups, history is clear. White folks have received most of the goodies.   By John Biewen, with Deena Hayes-Greene…

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S2 E12: My White Friends

  • July 12, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

For years, Myra Greene had explored blackness through her photography, often in self-portraits. She wondered, what would it mean to take pictures of whiteness? For her friends, what was it like to be photographed because…

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S2 E11: Danger

  • June 28, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

For hundreds of years, the white-dominated American culture has raised the specter of the dangerous, violent black man. Host John Biewen tells the story of a confrontation with an African American teenager. Then he and…

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S2 E10: Citizen Thind

  • June 14, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2

The story of Bhagat Singh Thind, and also of Takao Ozawa – Asian immigrants who, in the 1920s, sought to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that they were white in order to gain American citizenship….

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S2 E9: A Racial Cleansing in America

  • 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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S2 E8: Skulls and Skin

  • 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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S2 E7: Chenjerai’s Challenge

  • 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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S2 E6: That’s Not Us, So We’re Clean

  • April 26, 2017
  • Tagged as: Season 2
: New York City during the Draft Riots of 1863. Credit: Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation.

  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…

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S2 E5: Little War on the Prairie

  • 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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Christiane Amanpour knows the score. And it's not 50-50. At a celebration of her 40 years in the business, @oliverdarcy asked her what assignment has left the biggest imprint. Read her reply.

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