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That's Not Us, So We're Clean (Seeing White, Part 6)

That's Not Us, So We're Clean (Seeing White, Part 6)

FromScene on Radio


That's Not Us, So We're Clean (Seeing White, Part 6)

FromScene on Radio

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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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 Biewen spoke with some white Southern friends about that tendency. Part Six of our ongoing series, Seeing White. With recurring guest, Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Image: A lynching on Clarkson Street, New York City, during the Draft Riots of 1863. Credit: Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation.

Shannon Sullivan’s books, Revealing Whiteness and Good White People.

 Thanks to Chris Julin, whose 1991 NPR report on the Wisconsin fishing rights dispute we featured.
Released:
Apr 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Scene on Radio is a Peabody-nominated podcast that dives deeply into issues central to American society, exploring who we were and who we are. Recent many-part series include Seeing White, looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy, and *MEN, *exploring the past and present of sexism and patriarchy. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, Scene on Radio comes from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (CDS) and is distributed by PRX.