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Making Whiteness

How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.

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The In Black America collection from KUT in Austin, Texas, is made up of 745 episodes of In Black America, which were preserved and digitized in 2019, thanks to a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). In Black America, which began in 1970 and continues to be broadcast weekly, features hundreds of interviews with influential members of the black community in conversation about issues and topics pertaining to black America, including education, style, economics, social issues, families, culture, literature, and politics.

This episode features historian Grace Elizabeth Hale, talking about her book Making Whiteness.