Race in America (Audio) Podcast
1) Racial Equity and the Economic Reality of Workers - Workforce Frontiers Symposium 2019
Ethnic and racial diversity is a key strength in workforce development as well as moral imperative. How can we better match skills to opportunity? Molly Bashay, state policy analyst for the National S...Show More
2) Intellectual Journey from Reform to Activism with Paul Butler - Conversations with History
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor Law at Georgetown, for a discussion of the law and blacks. Topics covered include formative experiences includi...Show More
3) Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties: From The Ancient Law to The Jazz Singer with Charles Musser - Holocaust Living History Workshop
Yale University professor and filmmaker Charles Musser explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of race relations in German and American cinema from the 1920s by examining The Ancient Law...Show More
4) The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today
Nina Jablonski explores the nature and sequence of changes in human skin through prehistory, and the consequences of these changes for the lives of people today. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures...Show More
The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today
1:18:15 | Apr 24th, 2017
5) Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom on Campus: Why It Matters and How It's Being Threatened
Is free speech threatened on college campuses? One of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars explores the the notion of “hateful” or “hurtful” speech and their relation to the First Amendment. ...Show More
6) The Road Forward: The Future of Black Education in the 21st Century
UCSB faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students discuss what we have learned over the last six years from research about what worked in stimulating achievement among Black children and what challen...Show More
7) Latino vs Hispanic - Constructing a New America
In her new book, "Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New America" (University of Chicago Press), UC Berkeley sociologist G. Cristina Mora traces the commercial, poli...Show More
8) Tackling the Root Causes of Health Disparities - LeNoir - NMA Pediatric Lecture
There is strong evidence to suggest that where you live determines your life expectancy as well as your overall health. Anthony B. Iton, MD, JD, MPH is Senior Vice President at The California Endowme...Show More
Tackling the Root Causes of Health Disparities - LeNoir - NMA Pediatric Lecture
58:05 | Mar 10th, 2014
9) Postracial Nation: Blacks Laissez Faire Racism and a Changing American Population
Harvard University professor of social sciences Lawrence D. Bobo addresses contemporary issues of race and politics within American society. He argues against the assumption that the U.S. is a post-ra...Show More
10) Diversity in Science Fiction - It Came From Riverside (Extra)
Acclaimed writer and educator Nalo Hopkinson examines ongoing discussions about the growing importance of racial and gender diversity in science fiction. Series: "It Came from Riverside: Inside the Wo...Show More