Video and Multimedia

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Videos

The U.S. Medical System is Still Haunted By Slavery

Medical experiments conducted on slaves, and particularly on slave women, resulted in advances in modern medicine. To this day, healthcare continues to fail black women, who experience worse health than their peers.

Should America Offer Reparations for Slavery

Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses his piece “The Case for Reparations.”

Audios

Documentary “13th” Argues Mass Incarceration is an Extension of Slavery

This is a review of Ava DuVernay’s “13th,” which tracks the evolution of mass incarceration in the United States and argues that it has taken the place of slavery.

Looking “Beyond the Big House” and Into the Lives of Slaves

This audio highlights the “Slave Dwelling Project” which seeks to highlight the lives of slaves in the South through historic tours.

Web

Racial Identity and Racial Treatment of Mexican Americans

This article discusses the ways in which Mexican Americans are racialized in the United States.