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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...