See the Racism Machine
This chapter in Dismantling the Racism Machine, 2nd ed. explores the following question . . .
Now that we recognize that race is a social construct and not biological, why was the Racism Machine built? When? Where? How? By whom?
with the following Recommended Resources . . .
Online Videos
- “The History Of White People In America, Episode One: How America Invented Race.” WGBH, 6 July 2020.
- “Why Ancient Marble Statues Aren’t Meant To Be Seen As ‘White’.” YouTube, uploaded by VICE News, 18 July 2017.
- “Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans?” YouTube, uploaded by PBS Origins, 10 July 2018.
Podcasts
- Biewen, John. Seeing White. Scene on Radio, 2017.
- Biewen, John, and Ellen McGirt. Capitalism. Scene on Radio, 2024.
- Bouie, Jamelle, and Rebecca Onion, hosts. The History of American Slavery. Slate, 2015.
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole, host. 1619. New York Times, 2020.
- McGhee, Heather, host. The Sum of Us. Color of Change, 2022.
Websites
- Race: Are We So Different? American Anthropological Association, 2016.
- Race: The Power of an Illusion. California Newsreel.
- The 1619 Project. New York Times, Aug. 2019.
- SlaveVoyages. The Slave Voyages Consortium, 2021.
- Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2024.
- Zinn Education Project, 2024.
Articles
- Bond, Sarah. “Whitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism And Color In The Ancient World.” Forbes, 27 Apr. 2017.
- Bond, Sarah. “Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color.” Hyperallergic, 7 June 2017.
Books
- Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, 2012.
- Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. Yale University Press, 2023.
- Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. 4th ed., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. One World, 2015.
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2014.
- Goodman, Alan H., et al. Race: Are We So Different? Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole, et al., editors. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World, 2021.
- Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Nation Books, 2016.
- Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.
- Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Rev. ed., Back Bay Books, 2023.
- Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present. Perennial Classics, 2003.
Films
- Africa’s Great Civilizations. PBS, 2017.
- Native America. PBS, 2023.
- Origin. Array Filmworks, 2023.
- Stamped from the Beginning. One Story Up, 2023.
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