Our show focuses on issues of race and ethnicity as a regular part of our weekly conversations. Here are some highlights from our conversations in 2010 about how changing ideas of race and ethnicity in the United States are understood, lived and perceived.
These segments range from a discussion on how we define “whiteness” today to a conversation with a 75-year old and his daughter about how the US-Mexico border has changed over their lifetime. We also hear listener stories about their lived histories of the Great Migration and talked about how Americans are grappling with more fluid identity than the simple categories of “black” and “white.”
On Wednesday, we talked about a study published in the Social Psychology Quarterly that found bi-racial Americans of black and white descent are identifying themselves more and more s...
Why don't we talk more about the Great Migration, a time that saw six million African Americans leave the South in search of work and freedom? Our own Celeste Headlee is, herself, a p...
The massive migration of black Americans from the South to the North in the early part of last century changed the social and cultural landscape of America forever. Six million Afric...
Between the 1910s and 1920s an unprecedented social change occurred in the United States when six million black Americans left the South and headed North and West in what came to be k...
Jesus Ochoa, 75, was born in El Paso, Texas, where he has lived nearly all his life. As a young boy, he recalls stuffing his pockets with a $5 bill, picking up his friends and heading...
What does it mean to be categorized as "white" in this day and age? The census arrives in the mail this week and if you've gotten yours, you've seen these boxes to check off, indicat...
