Re:sound #237 The Tip of the Iceberg Show
This hour stories that dive below the surface to help us understand issues of race, the environment and immigration.
2017 / TCF / WBEZ 91.5, USA
This hour stories that dive below the surface to help us understand issues of race, the environment and immigration.
How Race Was Made (Seeing White, Part 2) [excerpt]
by John Biewen ( Scene on Radio , 2017)
When producer John Biewen was in high school in the late 1970s, he learned from his textbooks that people could be divided into three distinct races — mongoloid, caucasoid and negroid. Decades later he wondered when and how this now debunked theory of race took hold. In this episode, John looks at those distinctions arose.
This excerpt is the second episode of a multi-part series John produced on race called 'Seeing White'. You can listen to all of the episodes on the Scene on Radio website or subscribe to the podcast.
How the Environment Got Political [excerpt]
by Brooke Gladstone ( On the Media from WNYC Studios, 2017)
In the 1960's the issues pertaining to the environment were not nearly as divisive as they are today (e.g. Global Warming). Back then, the environment was a bipartisan issue, and a Republican president created the EPA in 1970 in response to public pressure. So how did we get here? How did the environment go from universal concern to political battleground — with the EPA caught in the crossfire?
Listen to On the Media's entire episode about the EPA and the environment.
State (Sanctuary Part 2)
by Delaney Hall with Roman Mars ( 99% Invisible , 2017)
In n the 1980s, the United States experienced a refugee crisis. Thousands of Central Americans were fleeing civil wars in their home countries.In response, a network of churches across the country declared themselves “sanctuaries,” offering shelter to thise who were threatened with deportation and in some cases helped smuggle people across the border. Leaders and members of these sanctuary churches believed they had a religious imperative to help people fleeing persecution. But the US government saw things differently, and took legal action.
You can hear 'Church', the first episode from 99pi 's Sanctuary series, at 99percentinvisible.org.
This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk.
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John Biewen (he/him) is a longtime journalist and audio documentary maker now based at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, where he produces and hosts the Scene on Radio podcast.
Brooke Gladstone is host and managing editor of NPR's On the Media, produced by WNYC Studios. She has been the senior editor of All Things Considered and Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, also a Moscow correspondent and NPR's first media reporter. She has won a couple of Peabody Awards among others.
Delaney Hall (@daphall) is a producer and editor with 99% Invisible .
Roman Mars (@romanmars) is the creator of 99% Invisible , a short radio show about design and architecture.
Dennis Funk was formerly Third Coast's senior producer.