Whiteness

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Whiteness in America isn’t just the neutral norm against which racial minorities, particularly Black people, are measured. Whiteness in America means having the privilege and power that go along with being part of that supposed norm. And becoming white – not in terms of pigment but of social status – is a choice that nearly every immigrant or refugee group in America has had to embrace or reject. We talk with two scholars in the field of Whiteness Studies, Nell Irvin Painter and Eric Goldstein, about how understanding the construction of white identity in this polyglot country gives us keen insights into its troubled racial history.

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MUSIC CREDITS

Turning to You by Blue Dot Sessions 

Our Only Lark by Blue Dot Sessions 

Heather by Blue Dot Sessions 

A Certain Lightness by Blue Dot Sessions 

The Crisper by Blue Dot Sessions 

Throughput by Blue Dot Sessions 

Pukae by Blue Dot Sessions 

Four and Fourteen by Blue Dot Sessions 

The Longshoreman by Blue Dot Sessions 

Ewa Valley by Blue Dot Sessions 

Careless Morning by Blue Dot Sessions 

Morning Glare by Blue Dot Sessions 

Lick Stick by Blue Dot Sessions