Scene on Radio
Scene on Radio
Kenan Insitute for Ethics at Duke University
On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4)
36 minutes Posted Mar 30, 2017 at 10:26 am.
0:00
36:30
Download MP3
Show notes

“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. But what did those words mean to the man who actually wrote them? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.

 

Key sources for this episode:

Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People

Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning

The Racial Equity Institute