Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story.
Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?
Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams.
Episode 31: Turning the Lens (Seeing White, Part 1) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 32: How Race Was Made (Seeing White, Part 2) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 33: Made in America (Seeing White, Part 3) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 34: On Crazy We Built A Nation (Seeing White, Part 4) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 35: Little War on the Prairie (Seeing White, Part 5) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 36: That’s Not Us, So We’re Clean (Seeing White, Part 6) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 37: Chenjerai’s Challenge (Seeing White, Part 7) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 38: Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 39: A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White, Part 9) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 40: Citizen Thind (Seeing White, Part 10) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 41: Danger (Seeing White, Part 11) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 42: My White Friends (Seeing White, Part 12) – Download full transcript PDF
Episode 44: White Affirmative Action (Seeing White, Part 13) – Download a full transcript PDF
Episode 45: Transformation (Seeing White, Part 14) – Download a full transcript PDF
