Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMy 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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…
9 years 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…
9 years 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…
9 years 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…
9 years, 1 month ago
Little War on the Prairie (Seeing White, Part 5)
Season 2 Episode 5
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 o…
9 years, 1 month ago
On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4)
Season 2 Episode 4
“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our …
9 years, 2 months ago
Made in America (Seeing White, Part 3)
Season 2 Episode 3
Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial Ame…
9 years, 2 months ago