Chenjerai Kumanyika

Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika is a professor of critical cultural media studies, and cultural industries in Rutgers School of Communication and Information.

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Seeing White: Transformation

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.

July 2, 2020

GI Bill of Rights signing

White Affirmative Action

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.

June 30, 2020

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Seeing White: My White Friends

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 you’re white?

June 25, 2020

Black Lives Matter rally

Seeing White: Danger

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 recurring guest Chenjerai Kumanyika discuss that longstanding image – and its neglected flipside: white-on-black violence.

June 23, 2020

Bhagat Singh Thind

Seeing White: Citizen Thind

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. Thind’s “bargain with white supremacy,” and the deeply revealing results.

June 22, 2020

human skulls

Seeing White: Skulls and Skin

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.

June 16, 2020

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