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The Devils' Share documents a university taking steps towards antiracism.

Episode 1

First Steps

The first class of University 101: The Invention and Consequences of Race meets, and the professors deal with the complexities of COVID: Students spread out all over a lecture hall for social distancing; masked and distant students making discussion difficult; and technological issues that were to plague the course throughout the term. Just the same, students embraced the topic, engaged with the professors, and were surprisingly moved by even the first meeting’s information. There’s a lot to learn about race, and learning started in earnest from day 1.
Episode 2

How to Become White

Duke’s UNIV 101 course, The Invention and Consequences of Race, gathers momentum. We learn about the sociology of race and “immigrant whiteness,” and how whiteness isn’t a color, it’s a social status that can be aspired to. Over the decades, for example, different groups both become white and stop being white. How whiteness has a lot more to do with politics than skin color. And how the professors and the students feel the class is going, and how they chose to discuss or not discuss things.
Episode 3

Conversations

Duke’s UNIV 101 course, The Invention and Consequences of Race, moves along and we discuss with the professors the lacunae in their own educations about race, racism, and America’s history.
Episode 4

Critical Race Theory

University 101, The Invention and Consequences of Race, has been going for the better part of a semester, and it’s time to face the topic of the day: Critical Race Theory. The class learns what CRT is and what it isn’t; addresses “Space Traders”; and learns that Brown v. Board of Education is a lot more complex than people usually understand. Links to material in this episode include an audio reading of “Space Traders,” a video adaptation, and the story itself.
Episode 5

This Is How You Do It

In the final episode of The Race Course, the class addresses its last topics, including racism in infrastructure, property, and health care decisions and confusion about affirmative action. In the final course meeting, professors and students discuss what they worked through in the course. It’s kind of a love-fest.
Season 1, Episode 6 Trailer

Trailer

The first class of University 101: The Invention and Consequences of Race meets, and the professors deal with the complexities of COVID: Students spread out all over a lecture hall for social distancing; masked and distant students making discussion difficult; and technological issues that were to plague the course throughout the term. Just the same, students embraced the topic, engaged with the professors, and were surprisingly moved by even the first meeting’s information. There’s a lot to learn about race, and learning started in earnest from day 1.
Season 1, Episode 7 Trailer

Compilation

A special compilation of the trailer and the first two episodes of The Race Course, to support its entry for a CASE Circle of Excellence Award.

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The Devils' Share documents a university taking steps towards antiracism.

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