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Christian Slavery with Katharine Gerbner

Christian Slavery with Katharine Gerbner

Professor Katharine Gerbner discusses her book Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World, which shows how debates between slave-owners, black Christians, and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race.

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Race and Jefferson’s Notes with Robert Pierce Forbes

Race and Jefferson’s Notes with Robert Pierce Forbes

Robert Pierce Forbes discusses his introduction, scholarship, and editorship of Thomas Jefferson’s seminal work, “Notes on the State of Virgina.” Prof. Forbes locates the origin of United States’ racial dynamic in Jefferson’s notes on race.

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Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer

Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer

Professor Thomas Craemer grew up in post-World War II Germany. One day, he met a Holocaust survivor who had retired from Israel to Germany of all places. For four decades, Mieciu Langer had received a reparations pension from the (West) German government. If reparations have the power to bring about reconciliation in this case, then reparations from the US Government to the Black descendants of the formerly enslaved might bring about racial reconciliation in the United States as well.

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Microaggressions with Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo

Microaggressions with Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo

Dr. Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo discusses her article, “How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States.” She defines what microaggressions are and how they support White superiority.

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CLEVELAND’S PROMISE with reporters Cameron Fields and Hannah Drown

CLEVELAND’S PROMISE with reporters Cameron Fields and Hannah Drown

For this innovative series, Cleveland Metropolitan School District gave two reporters unprecedented access to a classroom at Almira Elementary School to show readers the enormous challenges of educating children in poverty and what the school district is doing to overcome them. We discuss how the student’s navigate their lives, what services are available to them, and how the schools work to educate and care for our City’s young people.

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History of White People with Nell Irvin Painter

History of White People with Nell Irvin Painter

Professor Painter discusses her book, THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE. Prof. Painter begins with discussing just what it means to be “white” and how ideas of whiteness developed using Ancient Greek and Roman sources.

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