DNA tests are uncovering family histories. In some cases they're also revealing mixed bloodlines and the buried history of slavery. For African Americans, this can be emotionally-charged. What do you do when you find out one of your direct ancestors was a slave owner? And does it open the door to new conversations about racial justice and social healing?

Original Air Date: March 10, 2018

Guests:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/alex-gee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alex Gee</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/erin-hoag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Erin Hoag</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/annette-gordon-reed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Annette Gordon-Reed</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/anita-foeman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anita Foeman</a>

Interviews In This Hour:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/how-do-you-know-ruben-gee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Do You Know Ruben Gee?</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/searching-americas-racial-history-graveyard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Searching for America's Racial History in a Graveyard</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/uncovering-americas-buried-history-story-thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uncovering America's Buried History: The Story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/changing-our-conversation-about-race-using-genetic-testing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Changing Our Conversation About Race Using Genetic Testing</a>

Further Reading:

<a href="https://www.alexgee.com/category/blacklikeme/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Black Like Me" podcast</a>

DNA tests are uncovering family histories. In some cases they're also revealing mixed bloodlines and the buried history of slavery. For African Americans, this can be emotionally-charged. What do you do when you find out one of your direct ancestors was a slave owner? And does it open the door to new conversations about racial justice and social healing? Original Air Date: March 10, 2018 Guests: Alex Gee — Erin Hoag — Annette Gordon-Reed — Anita Foeman Interviews In This Hour: How Do You Know Ruben Gee? — Searching for America's Racial History in a Graveyard — Uncovering America's Buried History: The Story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings — Changing Our Conversation About Race Using Genetic Testing Further Reading: "Black Like Me" podcast

DNA tests are uncovering family histories. In some cases they're also revealing mixed bloodlines and the buried history of slavery. For African Americans, this can be emotionally-charged. What do you do when you find out one of your direct ancestors was a slave owner? And does it open the door to new conversations about racial justice and social healing?

Original Air Date: March 10, 2018

Guests:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/alex-gee" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alex Gee</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/erin-hoag" rel="noopener noreferrer">Erin Hoag</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/annette-gordon-reed" rel="noopener noreferrer">Annette Gordon-Reed</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/anita-foeman" rel="noopener noreferrer">Anita Foeman</a>

Interviews In This Hour:

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/how-do-you-know-ruben-gee" rel="noopener noreferrer">How Do You Know Ruben Gee?</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/searching-americas-racial-history-graveyard" rel="noopener noreferrer">Searching for America's Racial History in a Graveyard</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/uncovering-americas-buried-history-story-thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings" rel="noopener noreferrer">Uncovering America's Buried History: The Story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/changing-our-conversation-about-race-using-genetic-testing" rel="noopener noreferrer">Changing Our Conversation About Race Using Genetic Testing</a>

Further Reading:

<a href="https://www.alexgee.com/category/blacklikeme/" rel="noopener noreferrer">"Black Like Me" podcast</a>

Discovering America's Black DNA

Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are <a href="https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook">now archived in the Library of Congress</a>. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hostsAnne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;">Atoms and Eden</a>. Learn more at <a href="http://wondercabinetproductions.com">wondercabinetproductions.com</a>.

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Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are now archived in the Library of Congress. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hosts Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of Atoms and Eden. Learn more at wondercabinetproductions.com.

Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are <a href="https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook" rel="noopener noreferrer">now archived in the Library of Congress</a>. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hostsAnne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Atoms and Eden</a>. Learn more at <a href="http://wondercabinetproductions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">wondercabinetproductions.com</a>.

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