<description>Racial identity in the U.S. is complicated because race is an invented category rooted in slavery. This episode explores the question of black identity in America through the voices of four people who, at one time or another, have had to answer the question: What are you?</description>

Historically Black

APM Reports & The Washington Post

The Question of Black Identity

OCT 24, 201623 MIN
Historically Black

The Question of Black Identity

OCT 24, 201623 MIN

Description

Racial identity in the U.S. is complicated because race is an invented category rooted in slavery. This episode explores the question of black identity in America through the voices of four people who, at one time or another, have had to answer the question: What are you?