Video and Multimedia

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Video Links:

  • 8.1 Race Relations
    Description: Barack Obama speaks in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters not just of race and recent remarks but of the fundamental path by which America can work together to pursue a better future.
     
  • 8.2 Race and Voting
    Description: Nate Silver has data that answers big questions about race in politics. For instance, in the 2008 presidential race, did Obama's skin color actually keep him from getting votes in some parts of the country? Stats and myths collide in this fascinating talk that ends with a remarkable insight.
     
  • 8.3 Impact of Discrimination
    Description: The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. FRONTLINE explores what those children learned about discrimination and how it still affects them today.
     
  • 8.4 Affirmative Action
    Description: This clip looks at the issue of higher educational institutions that use race as a factor in the admissions process.
     
  • 8.5  Segregation in Schools
    Description: Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback. What’s behind the growing racial divide in American schools — and what’s the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education?

Audio Links:

  • 8.1 Police and a Racial Divide Part One
    Description: There are so many cops who look at the killing of Eric Garner or Mike Brown and say race didn't play a factor. And there are tons of black people who say that's insane. There's a division between people who distrust the police — even fear them — and people who see cops as a force for good. Stories of people living on both sides of that divide, and people trying to bridge it.
     
  • 8.2 Police and the Racial Divide Part Two
    Description: We hear about one city where relations between police and black residents went terribly, and another city where they seem to be improving remarkably. And one of our producers asks: Why aren't police chiefs talking about race after incidents where unarmed black men are wrongly killed by officers?
     
  • 8.2 Language
    Description: This podcast takes a look at how people may react when others are speaking about racial stereotypes.

Web Resources:

  • 8.2 Racism Protests
    Description: In the weeks since Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback, took a knee during the national anthem — a protest against racial injustice — he has been discussed by President Obama, has been derided by Donald J. Trump and has helped to intensify an already roiling national debate about race, the police and the definition of patriotism.
     
  • 8.3 Anti-Racism Organization
    Description: The Non-Profit Anti-Racism Coalition is an alliance of organizations and individuals committed to ending institutional racism.
     
  • 8.4 Institutional Racism
    Description: This article from Contexts Magazine focuses on ways Sociologists can study institutional racism and offers some tips on ways to end this form of racism.
     
  • 8.5 Racism in the Kindergarten Classroom
    Description: This article, published by Pacific Standard Magazine, examines newly published studies that indicate racism starts as early as Kindergarten for some children.