Scene on Radio: Capitalism
Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
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Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen and created at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism , is produced in partnership with Imperative 21. The show is distributed by PRX.
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How Race Was Made (Seeing White, Part 2)
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
03/01/17 • 28 min
For much of human history, people viewed themselves as members of tribes or nations but had no notion of “race.” Today, science deems race biologically meaningless. Who invented race as we know it, and why? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Photo: The Monument to the Discoveries, Lisbon, Portugal. The highlighted figure in the center is an effigy of Gomes Eanes de Zurara. The figure at the top right is Prince Henry the Navigator. Photo by Harvey Barrison.
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Turning the Lens (Seeing White, Part 1)
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
02/15/17 • 16 min
Events of the past few years have turned a challenging spotlight on White people, and Whiteness, in the United States. An introduction to our series exploring what it means to be White. By John Biewen, with special guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
5 Listeners
Made in America (Seeing White, Part 3)
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
03/16/17 • 33 min
Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American slavery are inseparable from the construction of Whiteness as we know it today. By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Key sources for this episode:
Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People
4 Listeners
Things I'm Afraid to Say
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
03/23/16 • 20 min
A refugee from Bosnia. An NYC-born survivor who grew up poor, black, Muslim, and gay. And how one, and her music, saved the other.
4 Listeners
S3 E2: Ain't No Amoeba
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
07/25/18 • 32 min
For millennia, Western culture (and most other cultures) declared that men and women were different sorts of humans—and, by the way, men were better. Is that claim not only wrong but straight-up backwards?
Co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen explore the current state of the nature-nurture gender debate, with help from Lisa Wade of Occidental College and Mel Konner of Emory University.
Music by Alex Weston, and by Evgueni and Sacha Galperine.
Music and production help from Joe Augustine at Narrative Music.
3 Listeners
On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4)
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03/30/17 • 36 min
“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. But what did those words mean to the man who actually wrote them? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Key sources for this episode:
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People
Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
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A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White Part 9)
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
05/31/17 • 29 min
In 1919, a white mob forced the entire black population of Corbin, Kentucky, to leave, at gunpoint. It was one of many racial expulsions in the United States. What happened, and how such racial cleansings became “America’s family secret.”
The history of Corbin as presented by the Corbin city government, with no mention of the 1919 racial expulsion.
Elliot Jaspin’s book, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansings in America
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S3 E1: Dick Move
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
07/11/18 • 37 min
Launching our Season 3 series, co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee look at the problems of male supremacy. And we visit Deep Time to explore the latest scholarship on how, when, and why men invented patriarchy.
Featuring Meg Conkey of UC-Berkeley, Mel Konner of Emory University, and Lisa Wade of Occidental College.
Music by Alex Weston, and by Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. Music and Production help from Joe Augustine at Narrative Music.
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Rogue Chickens and Ratty-ass Radishes
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
04/06/16 • 19 min
A punk farmer. A tale of rogue chickens on the loose in the city. A pair of refreshing takes on the whole Food thing, in and around Durham, NC. Pieces by Emily Hilliard and Joseph Decosimo.
3 Listeners
S3 E3: Skeleton War
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
08/08/18 • 34 min
A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that “all men are created equal.” Some of them said that notion should include women, too. Why did those feminists—most of them men, by the way—lose the fight? How did the patriarchy survive the Enlightenment?
Co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee look into these questions, with historians Londa Schiebinger of Stanford and Toby Ditz of Johns Hopkins, and sociologist Lisa Wade of Occidental College.
Music by Alex Weston, and by Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. Music and production help from Joe Augustine at Narrative Music.
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How many episodes does Scene on Radio: Capitalism have?
Scene on Radio: Capitalism currently has 121 episodes available.
What topics does Scene on Radio: Capitalism cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Documentary and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on Scene on Radio: Capitalism?
The episode title 'How Race Was Made (Seeing White, Part 2)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Scene on Radio: Capitalism?
The average episode length on Scene on Radio: Capitalism is 37 minutes.
How often are episodes of Scene on Radio: Capitalism released?
Episodes of Scene on Radio: Capitalism are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Scene on Radio: Capitalism?
The first episode of Scene on Radio: Capitalism was released on Sep 1, 2015.
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