Part eight of our series, Seeing White. In this episode we're looking at how whiteness got constructed and how it works. We also look at the lengths people have gone to to reinforce being white is a thing.
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