The Difference Between Us: Race -The Power of an Illusion
It’s not uncommon to attribute differential group outcomes for SAT scores, musical ability, or athletic performance to innate racial traits—yet there are no characteristics, not even one gene, that distinguish all members of one “race” from ...
The House We Live In: Race - The Power of an Illusion
Virginia law once defined a black person as someone with 1/16th African ancestry; in Florida, it was 1/8th African ancestry. If you can cross a state line and literally, legally change race, what does race really mean? This program argues that the i...
Facing Racism
This emotionally charged program follows five participants of different ethnic and racial backgrounds through a three-day Unlearning Racism workshop. As the workshop begins, a European-American man offends his African-American workshop partner by ma...
Welcome to My World: Teens Explore Diversity
Operation Breaking Stereotypes is a high school exchange program that allows inner-city students to attend school in Maine, and students from rural Maine to attend school in New York City. The goal is to promote mutual understanding—but are the te...
Race and sex : what we think (but can't say)
Behind the conscious mind’s efforts to judge people on their merits, the subconscious categorizes by details such as gender, race, and age - just as it has done since the dawn of humankind. Can ethnic prejudice be overcome? What is the “stereoty...
Anatomy of prejudice: Jane Elliott's seminar on race
She may be an overzealous crusader. She may be on a power trip. Then again, maybe Jane Elliott has pioneered a truly honest and viable way to talk about racial prejudice - a way in which white people and people of color can explore the subject toget...
Racism in the United States
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about the perpetuation of unequal opportunity in the United States. Professor Conley notes that there are a number of cultural, economic and social channels by which racial and class disti...
Institutional Racism
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about the forces that perpetuate racism, even when there is no particular racial motivation in mind. In many cases, Professor Conley notes, there is no awareness that race plays a part in ...
The Origins of Cultural Studies
In this classic 1989 lecture, now available for the first time, world-renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall traces the social, intellectual, and institutional environment from which cultural studies emerged. An invaluable introduction to the issue...
Race: the floating signifier
Arguing against biological interpretations of racial difference, Stuart Hall asks viewers to pay close attention to the cultural processes by and through which the visible differences of appearance come to stand for natural or biological properties ...