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The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference supports research, teaching, and public dialogue that examine race and intersecting dimensions of human difference including...
The white “race” was invented by rich Virginians in 1676 in the aftermath of a populous rebellion of impoverished, indentured, and enslaved Africans and Euro...
What does it mean to be white? MTV’s ‘White People’ is a groundbreaking documentary on race that aims to answer that question from the viewpoint of young whi...
6 lip 2020 · Ed and Jon: Since before the Revolution, “American” has equaled “white.” Enslaved African people understood this. Indigenous people knew this. And wealthy “white” landowners made sure that each new wave of immigrants knew it too.
8 lip 2020 · The History Of White People In America, Episode Three: How America Turned Skin Color Into Power. WORLD Channel, in partnership with PBS' Independent Lens, presents a new animated musical series about America's reckoning with race and injustice.
The History of White People is a 2010 book by Nell Irvin Painter, in which the author explores the idea of whiteness throughout history, beginning with ancient Greece and continuing through the beginning of scientific racism in early modern Europe to 19th- through 21st-century America.
Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of are compared. Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America.
