The Role of Race in Interpersonal Violence

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The higher crime rate among black folks is also a socioeconomic problem, right? And your adjusted statistics as poor, poor urban white people and poor urban black people have similar rates of violence. You put people in certain conditions and it doesn't matter what their ethnicity is, they're going to be prone to interpersonal violence.

For hundreds of years, the white-dominated American culture has raised the specter of the dangerous, violent black man. Host John Biewen tells the story of a confrontation with an African American teenager. Then he and recurring guest Chenjerai Kumanyika discuss that longstanding image – and its neglected flipside: white-on-black violence.