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Audio Links:

• Listen to this audio clip from NPR’s Diane Rehm Show:
  • Journalist Diane Rehm and actress Brook Shields discuss issues of gender in society.

• Listen to the audio clip from the NPR broadcast and read the article related to it:
  • Professor Nina Jablonski discusses changes in skin color.

• Listen to this audio clip from the NPR broadcast and read the article related to it:
  • An assessment of race relations in the United States and how these relations are viewed by people with different skin colors is provided.

• Listen to this audio clip from the NPR broadcast and read the article related to it:
  • An examination of how Chinese are accessing U.S. television and what impacts this might have on China is provided.

Video Links:

• Watch the video  Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
  • It discusses how U.S. media portrays the working class in the U.S.

• Watch on YouTube an excerpt from the documentary “Black Athena: A Fabrication of Ancient  Greece”
  • The documentary examines Professor Martin Bernal claim that 19^th century scholars constructed a racist “cult of Greece” based upon a purely Aryan origin for Western culture, thus suppressing the numerous connections between African and Near Eastern cultures and early Greek myth and art.

• Watch the PBS program “Brazil:  A Racial Paradise?”
  • Seventy-five million people of African descent live in Brazil. Brazil has hundreds of words for skin color. This program discusses how skin color affects the status of the descendants of Africans in Brazil.

• Watch on YouTube an excerpt from Tim White’s speech “On White Privilege”
  • Activist Tim Wise discusses the various ways in which white privilege marks the contemporary society of the United States.