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Jul 11, 2018 • 38min

S3 E1: Dick Move

Guests Meg Conkey, Mel Konner, and Lisa Wade explore topics such as the origins and impact of the Me Too movement, challenging traditional narratives in anthropology, societal attitudes towards motherhood and fatherhood, and controlling women's bodies and sexuality in male supremacy.
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Jun 27, 2018 • 5min

Scene on Radio Season 3: MEN Trailer

Scene on Radio opens its Season 3 series, MEN, with this preview. Host John Biewen introduces the series with series co-host Celeste Headlee. Music Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. Theme music by Alex Weston. Music and production help from Joe Augustine at Narrative Music.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Dec 13, 2017 • 17min

I Know It's You (Rebroadcast)

A father turns on a recorder while tucking in his 7-year-old, having no idea he’s about to capture a poignant growing-up moment in his son’s life. (Advisory: This episode is not suitable for some young children.) Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Aug 24, 2017 • 44min

Transformation (Seeing White, Part 14)

The concluding episode in our series, Seeing White. An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host John Biewen, with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Robin DiAngelo, and William “Sandy” Darity, Jr. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Aug 9, 2017 • 48min

White Affirmative Action (Seeing White, Part 13)

When it comes to U.S. government programs and support earmarked for the benefit of particular racial groups, history is clear. White folks have received most of the goodies. By John Biewen, with Deena Hayes-Greene of the Racial Equity Institute and recurring series partner Chenjerai Kumanyika. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Jul 26, 2017 • 51min

Losing Ground

For Eddie Wise, owning a hog farm was a lifelong dream. In middle age, he and his wife, Dorothy, finally got a farm of their own. But they say that over the next twenty-five years, the U.S. government discriminated against them because of their race, and finally drove them off the land. Their story, by John Biewen, was produced in collaboration with Reveal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Jul 12, 2017 • 40min

My White Friends (Seeing White, Part 12)

Chenjerai Kumanyika, a media scholar probing race and whiteness, teams up with Myra Greene, an art professor renowned for her photography that explores identity. They dive into Greene's unique approach to capturing whiteness through photography. The duo discusses the complexities of racial identity and representation in art. Humorous anecdotes from a golfing experience reveal cultural stereotypes, while personal stories about interracial friendships highlight the intricacies of race within communities. Their insightful conversation challenges conventional narratives around race.
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Jun 28, 2017 • 46min

Danger (Seeing White, Part 11)

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Jun 14, 2017 • 38min

Citizen Thind (Seeing White, Part 10)

The story of Bhagat Singh Thind, and also of Takao Ozawa – Asian immigrants who, in the 1920s, sought to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that they were white in order to gain American citizenship. Thind’s “bargain with white supremacy,” and the deeply revealing results. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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May 31, 2017 • 29min

A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White Part 9)

In 1919, a white mob forced the entire black population of Corbin, Kentucky, to leave, at gunpoint. It was one of many racial expulsions in the United States. What happened, and how such racial cleansings became “America’s family secret.” The history of Corbin as presented by the Corbin city government, with no mention of the 1919 racial expulsion.  Elliot Jaspin’s book, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansings in America Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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