"...freedom is never a final act, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationships."
A. Philip Randolph
TRANSCRIPT OF LIVE CHAT - Legal scholar and microbiologist Pilar Ossorio fields questions from viewers about science, medicine, racial classification, and more.
ESSAY BY LARRY ADELMAN - What, if anything, does genetics tell us about race? How do we make sense of recent genetic discoveries that seem to follow racial lines?
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - Covering a wide range of topics biological notions of race, how race is socially real, health consequences of race, drug company research, classification.
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - what are our assumptions about biology and race? What's the difference between looking at race as a social idea and a scientific one? What other explanations exist for why we look different?
anthropology, biology, athletics, classification, human variation, genetics, history of science
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - why doesn't it make sense to classify people into races? How do we sort through all our confusion about genetics, biology and things like athletic ability? Where did our traditional notions of race come from?
evolution, genetics, history of science, biology, anthropology
ESSAY BY JEAN CHENG - a brief overview of how our racial categories have changed over time, both reflecting and shaping our political and social priorities.
ESSAY BY LARRY ADELMAN - how has race affected whites? A look at how institutions and public policies have benefited whites at the expense of other groups.
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - does everyone experience race the same way? how do our cultural experiences shape our perceptions of other people? how do we unknowingly recreate racism?
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - does everyone have the same opportunities to get ahead? why did the wealth gap between blacks and whites come from, and what should we do about it?
white advantage, wealth, housing, segregation, colorblind, public policy, law
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how is race socially constructed? why can't we get rid of the concept? how do whites benefit without having to do anything? what can we do about residential segregation and inequality?
white advantage, race relations, colorblind, affirmative action
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how do whites feel about race, affirmative action and racial inequality? To find out, Nancy DiTomaso interviewed white people throughout the United States.
housing, public policy, segregation, racism
What We Need To Do About The 'Burbs PLEASE NOTE: this link will open a new window with content from outside the RACE web site. Close the browser window to return to this site.
Why is attacking suburban sprawl crucial to anti-racist work? In his interview with Colorlines' Executive Editor Bob Wing, john a. powell discusses regionalism, segregation, concentrated poverty and urban strategies.
Andy Barlow and Troy Duster reveal why the racial privacy initiative encourages racial discrimination by making it impossible to monitor and enforce non-discrimination laws.
white advantage, affirmative action
Whites Swim in Racial Preference PLEASE NOTE: this link will open a new window with content from outside the RACE web site. Close the browser window to return to this site.
Tim Wise recounts a long history of racial preferences for whites as he examines the controversy surrounding the University of Michigan's affirmative action program.
Slavery, the origins of race, ancient views of difference, 19th century race science, and more.
SUMMARY BY JOHN CHENG - Was it inevitable that Africans would be imported to the Americas to become slaves? Did European views about racial inferiority contribute to the fact of New World African slavery?
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - the fluidity of racial identities in early colonial America, the long history of slavery not based on race, how the rationalization of slavery continues to affect us today.
racial classification, law, whiteness, early racialidentity, U.S. history
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how did early American peoples see themselves? how is race socially constructed? how is racism more than just individual prejudice and fear?
origins of race, anthropology, slavery, early ideas
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how is race a modern concept? why were Africans enslaved? What role did 19th century ethnologists and race scientists play in shaping our understanding of race?
Native American and American Indian, U.S. history, Manifest Destiny, Indian policy, early English-indian encounters
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how have ideas of race changed and affected the treatment of Native Americans and the self-identity of tribes like the Cherokee - from the early encounter with British colonists to today?
freedom, slavery, origins of race, early colonial history
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - what was early colonial Virginia like? how are race and freedom tied together? what is the tension in American history with regard to race?
ARTICLE BY AUDREY SMEDLEY - how race was institutionalized in the 19th century as a worldview, a set of cultural attitudes and assumptions about human group differences.
Native American and American Indian, U.S. history, early English-indian encounters
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how did the English and Native peoples of America view themselves and each other at the time of their first encounter? Why did the English colonize North America?
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