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October 2008 Archives
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Recorded live at AS220 on October 29th 2008 2000 - U.S. Census allows individuals to identify themselves as mixed-race Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, and their American stories -- how checking multiple boxes on a survey helped redefine race in...
October 29, 2008 5:50 AM |
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Recorded live at AS220 on October 15th 2008 1920 - Prolific African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux releases Within Our Gates Oscar Micheaux is considered the most prolific Black filmmaker in the history of American cinema, a title he earned by...
October 15, 2008 5:30 AM |
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Recorded live at AS220 on October 22nd 2008 1957 - Dissent magazine publishes Norman Mailer's "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" What's Black? What's White? What's Italian? What's Jewish? Are race and ethnicity a dance anyone can...
October 8, 2008 5:30 AM |
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Recorded live at AS220 on October 1st 2008 1910 - Racist biologist Charles Davenport creates the Eugenic Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory An American prelude to Hitler or to the Human Genome Project...perhaps both? Eugenics was a...
October 5, 2008 5:06 PM |
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What's race got to do with it?
The 2008 season of Action Speaks explores the meaning of race in our contemporary American society. The theme is inspired by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities' On The Road to Freedom initiative, which marks the bicentennial of the...
October 1, 2008 5:02 PM |
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Recorded live at AS220 on October 29th 2008 2000 - U.S. Census allows individuals to identify themselves as mixed-race Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, and their American stories -- how checking multiple boxes on a survey helped redefine race in...
Recorded live at AS220 on October 22nd 2008 1957 - Dissent magazine publishes Norman Mailer's "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" What's Black? What's White? What's Italian? What's Jewish? Are race and ethnicity a dance anyone can...
Recorded live at AS220 on October 1st 2008 1910 - Racist biologist Charles Davenport creates the Eugenic Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory An American prelude to Hitler or to the Human Genome Project...perhaps both? Eugenics was a...