How was whiteness written into law, and how was that concept used to prevent poor whites from rising up against the ruling class?

Join your neighbors as we listen to the podcast and delve into these questions and more, in a discussion of the powerful and acclaimed podcast series, Seeing White, part of the Scene On Radio podcast by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Listening before the event is not required, but may be helpful! Light refreshments provided.


 

*CONTENT WARNING - Please note this episode contains graphic scenes of racial violence*

"Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American slavery are inseparable from the construction of Whiteness as we know it today." By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.



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