| Topic |
Name |
Description |
| origins of race, U.S. history, world history |
The Historical Origins and Development of Racism |
ARTICLE BY GEORGE FREDRICKSON - a brief overview of the evolution of the race concept in the West. |
| origins of race, slavery, racism, classification, U.S.history |
Presentation by Historian Barbara J. Fields |
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how race was created to justify American slavery and how race, or racism, is inherently non-neutral. |
| origins of race, slavery |
Africans, Slavery and Race |
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? |
| origins of race, slavery |
Interview with James O. Horton,historian |
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 |
Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley, historian |
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 |
Interview with Audrey Smedley, anthropologist |
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 |
Interview with Theda Perdue, historian |
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 |
Interview with Ira Berlin, historian |
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? |
| origins of race, slavery |
The Origin of the Idea of 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 |
Interview with Karen Ordahl Kupperman, historian |
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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Prometheus 6 - Background reading for "Race - The Power of an Illusion"
A Struggle for Rights: 'Eyes on the Prize' Mired in Money Battle DeNeen L. Brown and Hamil R. Harris
Many of these images of the black freedom struggle were captured in the award-winning 1987 documentary series "Eyes on the Prize," which portrayed the civil rights movement and the heroic efforts of Martin Luther King Jr.