Matters of Race Study Guide
Matters of Race is a four-part documentary series that explores race, culture, and identity in the United States today. Each of the 60-minute programs focuses on a single story or set of stories that reveals how "matters of race" continue to shape and misshape American life. Each program challenges conventional thinking about difference.
The accompanying study guide encourages students to explore the following questions:
- What is race? How does it shape identity and inform relationships between self and other?
- How do notions of race shape a community? A nation?
- What is the relationship between race and culture?
- What is the relationship between race and power?
- How are long-held notions of difference based on race changing today?
- How are those changes redefining what it means to be an American?
- What meaning, if any, will race have for future generations?
