Seeing White: A conversation about a podcast
Listen to SCENE ON radio’s podcast called SEEING WHITE and meet for a conversation online. Feel free to join the conversation even if you don’t have time to listen to the podcast.
Events of the past few weeks have heightened the awareness of race inequities. What if we turn the spotlight on White people, and Whiteness, in the United States?
This series produced with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, NC. https://documentarystudies.duke.edu/
We will use the podcast to explore what it means to be White. Produced by John Biewen (originally from Minnesota) with special guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
From the Study Guide:
The subject of whiteness is potentially uncomfortable for people of any race or ethnicity. People of color may react to the topic of whiteness by thinking: Really? We live in a world dominated and controlled by white people. Whiteness is our often-uncomfortable reality. Do we have to have a discussion about whiteness? For folks feeling that way, please understand: This is not about celebrating whiteness. We’re here to take a critical look at whiteness and how it functions in the life of our society, how it affects us all. Because it does, and we usually don’t talk about it directly.
White people, on the other hand, may react with unease: Am I about to be attacked? Is the point of this discussion that all white people are bad? To those people we can say: The point is not to attack every individual of European descent. None of us chose our “race,” nor did we create the society that we were all born into. In this class or discussion group, we’re in this together, trying to understand how we all got here. A conclusion of the Seeing White series is that white people must own and take responsibility for the advantages that come with whiteness, but that is not the same as saying that you as a white person are to blame and need to feel ashamed.
Join us on any or all of the following dates:
Monday, June 15 at 7pm Episode 1 Turning the Lens
Wednesday, June 17 at 7pm Episode 2 How Race Was Made
Friday, June 19 at 7pm Episode 3 Made in America
Sunday, June 21 at 7pm Episode 4 On Crazy we Built a Nation
Wednesday, June 24 at 7pm Episode 5 Little War on the Prairie
Friday, June 26 at 7pm Episode 6 That’s Not Us, So We’re Clean
Sunday, June 28 at 7pm Episode 7 Chenjerai’s Challenge
The first 7 episodes of 14 will be scheduled and we can decide how to continue after June 28.
To participate, go to the SHA Calendar one hour prior to meeting time for the Zoom link.