Compiled by Award-winning producer John Biewen from the "Seeing White" series. The Invention of Race traces the development of racial and racist ideas from the ancient world - when there was no notion of race - up to the founding of the United States as,fundamentally, a nation of and for white people.
The Invention of Race is adapted from several episodes of the more in-depth 14-portion series "Seeing White" on the Scene on Radio podcast.
Airs Monday, and February 19 at 9pm on WNYC 93.9 FM
Source: thetakeaway.org