Video and Multimedia

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Video Resources

Video 1: Housing Segregation in Everything (6:37)
Description: The NPR Code Switch team describes how government-backed policies created racial inequality in housing after World War II, which led to a large wealth gap between Whites and African Americans.

Video 2: The ABCs of Intersectionality (2:58)
Description: This video, produced by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, explains the theory of intersectionality. It describes the origin of the term intersectionality and the history behind it.

Audio Resources

Audio 1: How the 1965 Immigration Act Made America a Nation of Immigrants (begins at 5:15 and ends at 14:23)
Description: Tom Gjelten, author of A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story, is interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. In this clip, he discusses the history of U.S. immigration policies, including a quota system used to limit the number of immigrants from countries deemed less desirable.