Seeing White: Transformation
By John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Scene on Radio
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.
White Affirmative Action
By John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Scene on Radio
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.
Seeing White: My White Friends
By John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Scene on Radio
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?
Seeing White: Danger
By John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Scene on Radio
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.
Seeing White: Citizen Thind
By John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Scene on Radio
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.
Seeing White: A Racial Cleansing in America
By John Biewen, Scene on Radio
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 became “America’s family secret.”
Seeing White: Skulls and Skin
By John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Scene on Radio
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.
Seeing White: Chenjerai’s Challenge
By John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Scene on Radio
“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.