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  Meghan Smith
  July 6, 2020 10:57 AM

  Episode One: How America Invented Race

  WORLD Channel, in partnership with PBS’ Independent Lens, presents a new animated musical series about America’s reckoning with race and injustice. The History Of White People In America takes the audience on a journey through American history, starting in the 17th century, and in particular looks at how the crafting of the idea of the white race — of whiteness — helped shape the nation’s history, designating other groups for subjugation and having wide-ranging ramifications on social class and life experience that exist to this day.

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  Jackie Bruleigh
  July 7, 2020 12:13 PM

  Episode Two: How America Outlawed Interracial Marriage

  WORLD Channel, in partnership with PBS’ Independent Lens, presents The History Of White People In America, a new animated musical series about America’s reckoning with race and injustice. Through the lens of American history, the show illustrates the ways that the concept of whiteness has shaped our modern reality by enforcing the subjugation and separation of people based on the color of their skin.

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  Stacy Buchanan
  July 8, 2020 12:40 PM

  Episode Three: How America Turned Skin Color Into Power

  WORLD Channel, in partnership with PBS' Independent Lens, presents a new animated musical series about America's reckoning with race and injustice. The History Of White People In America takes the audience on a journey through American history, starting in the 17th century, and in particular looks at how the crafting of the idea of the white race — of whiteness — helped shape the nation's history, designating other groups for subjugation and having wide-ranging ramifications on social class and life experience that exists to this day.

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  Meghan Smith
  July 14, 2020 01:13 PM

  Nnenna Freelon Talks With Eric Jackson On Voicing Sally Hemings

  WORLD Channel, in partnership with PBS’ Independent Lens, presents a new animated musical series about America’s reckoning with race and injustice: The History Of White People In America. The series takes the audience on a journey through American history, starting in the 17th century, and looks at how the crafting of the idea of the white race — of whiteness — helped shape the nation’s history.

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