Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTransformation (Seeing White, Part 14)
Season 2 Episode 14
The concluding episode in our series, Seeing White. An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host Jo…
8 years, 4 months ago
White Affirmative Action (Seeing White, Part 13)
Season 2 Episode 13
When it comes to U.S. government programs and support earmarked for the benefit of particular racial groups, history is clear. White folks have recei…
8 years, 5 months ago
Losing Ground
For Eddie Wise, owning a hog farm was a lifelong dream. In middle age, he and his wife, Dorothy, finally got a farm of their own. But they say that o…
8 years, 5 months ago
My White Friends (Seeing White, Part 12)
Season 2 Episode 12
For years, Myra Greene had explored blackness through her photography, often in self-portraits. She wondered, what would it mean to take pictures of …
8 years, 6 months ago
Danger (Seeing White, Part 11)
Season 2 Episode 11
For hundreds of years, the white-dominated American culture has raised the specter of the dangerous, violent black man. Host John Biewen tells the st…
8 years, 6 months ago
Citizen Thind (Seeing White, Part 10)
Season 2 Episode 10
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 we…
8 years, 7 months ago
A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White Part 9)
Season 2 Episode 9
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 Unite…
8 years, 7 months ago
Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)
Season 2 Episode 8
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provid…
8 years, 7 months ago
Chenjerai’s Challenge (Seeing White, Part 7)
Season 2 Episode 7
“How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Chenjerai Kumanyika puts that question to host John Biewen, as they revisit an unfinished conversa…
8 years, 8 months ago
That's Not Us, So We're Clean (Seeing White, Part 6)
Season 2 Episode 6
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 Bi…
8 years, 8 months ago