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Black & White
Slavery & Science
Historian Daryl Scott discusses rise of scientific racism and how race has evolved–and not evolved–in the 19th and 20th centuries.
00:00:00 / 00:06:57
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Further Reading
- Read up on the origins and history of the idea of race.
- Peruse an excerpt from The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon Reed, which won the 2009 Pulitizer Prize in History.
- Watch Barack Obama’s March 2008 speech about race.
- Listen to the story of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision that ended laws against intermarriage or read about it.