Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.

 

Resources for this episode:

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Invention-Politics-Re-create-Twenty-first/dp/1595588345" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fatal Invention</a>, by Dorothy Roberts

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393339742/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494474661&sr=1-1&keywords=the+history+of+white+people" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The History of White People</a>, by Nell Irvin Painter

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Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do. Resources for this episode: Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.

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Resources for this episode:

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Invention-Politics-Re-create-Twenty-first/dp/1595588345" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fatal Invention</a>, by Dorothy Roberts

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393339742/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1494474661&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+history+of+white+people" rel="noopener noreferrer">The History of White People</a>, by Nell Irvin Painter

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Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism.  Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. The show is distributed by PRX.

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Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. The show is distributed by PRX.

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism.&nbsp; Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.&nbsp;The show is distributed by PRX.

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