The Importance of Deep Transformation in the United States

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Cenjurai Kumanika: There was a pervasive sense that we're not in the racist part of the country. He says it's all very familiar to him as someone who grew up in Minnesota and lived in Minneapolis, St. Paul for many years. The show comes to you from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Our website is cenjuraiodeo.org.

When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. Host John Biewen spoke with some white Southern friends about that tendency. Part Six of our ongoing series, Seeing White. With recurring guest, Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Image: A lynching on Clarkson Street, New York City, during the Draft Riots of 1863. Credit: Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation.

Shannon Sullivan’s books, Revealing Whiteness and Good White People.

Thanks to Chris Julin, whose 1991 NPR report on the Wisconsin fishing rights dispute we featured.