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Melting Pot
The melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, etcetera, could not melt into the pot. They could be used as wood to produce the fire for the pot, but they could not be used as material to be melted into the pot.
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Trailer
Trailer: Just because race doesn't exist in biology doesn't mean it isn't very real, helping shape life chances and opportunities.
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Measuring Genetic Variation Between Groups
"There's as much or more diversity and genetic difference within any racial group as there is between people of different racial groups." -Pilar Ossorio
episode 3
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Pedagogical Storytelling with Victoria Robinson
Victoria Robinson shares how she uses her favorite clip on redlining in her teaching
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Redlining
When the white residents of Eight Mile Road in Detroit were told they were too close to a Black neighborhood to qualify for a positive FHA rating, they built this six foot wall... Once the wall went up, mortgages on the white properties were approved.
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Differences in Skin Color
If we were to walk from the tropics to Norway, what we would see is a continuous change in skin tone. And at no point along that trip would we be able to say, "Oh, this is the place in which we go from the dark race to the light race."
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Naturalizing Social Differences
The biology becomes an excuse for social differences.
episode 1
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The Difference Between Us: Racial Classification as Cultural
Think about race in its universality. Where is your measurement device? We sometimes do it by skin color, other people may do it by hair texture... There is no way to measure race.
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Race Invaders
By 1910, 58% of American mining and factory workers were immigrants. Like Mexicans and African Americans, Italians, Slavs and Jews were often desired as laborers but also feared, seen as promiscuous, lazy, or stupid.
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Perceived Racial Differences in Athletic Ability
The idea of race as biology is persistent on America's playing fields, but it is an idea that is not true.
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Explaining Group Difference in Terms of Racial Difference
At the turn of the 20th century, American society was riding a wave of confidence as an emerging industrial power, and the face of its power and prosperity was white. To many, this reflected a preordained natural order.
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Interview with john a. powell
john a. powell discusses why the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society supports "reawakening" the RACE: The Power of an Illusion series
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