Unlearning Race
Unlearning Race Project
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Unlearning Race explains the origins of race, how racial categories were created, and how those ideas continue to influence society. Each brief episode teaches one piece of the history we were never taught and challenges the assumptions we take for granted.
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Unlearning Race - The TLDR
This episode is the abbreviated version of the entire series. Whether you want the gist of things before diving in, or you need a recap, you can start here.
Episode 11 - Why the Lie Works
This episode explores why the lie of race has been so effective, leading to people continuing to vote against their own interests.
Episode 10 - The Room We Grew Up In
Episode 10 – The Room We Grew Up In A story about how a system built to contain, divide, and extract was disguised as inheritance and safety—and what happens when light finally breaks through the lie.
EPISODE 9 — "The Cost of Clinging to Whiteness"
For four centuries, whiteness promised elevation. A higher rung. A safer place. A guaranteed belonging. It promised protection from suffering and distance from consequence —a world where someone else…
EPISODE 8 — The Identity Crisis of Whiteness
By the early twenty-first century, whiteness had become something no earlier generation could have imagined: an identity that was simultaneously dominant and terrified. Politically powerful, yet…
EPISODE 7 — "When the Myth Breaks: The Moments People Step Out of Whiteness"
Whiteness is not only an ideology. It is a training system—a set of stories, incentives, protections, punishments, and social cues that keep people aligned with a racial hierarchy they did not design…
Episode 6: “The Machinery: How Whiteness Moved from Mobs into Systems”
If Episode 5 is the story of backlash in the streets, Episode 6 is the story of backlash in plain sight—quiet, procedural, and durable.
Episode 5: "When the Myth is Threatened: The Backlash Engine of Whiteness"
For four centuries, the ideology of whiteness has survived by convincing its believers that equality is danger and hierarchy is safety. But the clearest measure of its fragility is what happens the…
Episode 4: Fragile White Identity: The Insecurity Beneath the Ideology
Whiteness has always projected confidence—an identity that claims authority, entitlement, and moral certainty. But beneath the surface of that projection lives something more vulnerable: a deep,…
Episode 3 — “The Holy Trinity of Power: Whiteness, Christianity, and the Making of a Nation”
A deep, fact-based exploration of how whiteness fused with Christianity, economics, and national identity to shape America—revealing how theology was rewritten, laws were engineered, and an entire…
Episode 2: The Invention of "Whiteness"
This essay uncovers how Europe created the idea of “whiteness” to solve a moral crisis: how to commit brutality while believing in its own righteousness. It follows the rise of racial ideology from…
Episode 1: The Lie of "Race"
A foundational look at the lie of “race” — where it came from, why it was invented, and how it shapes us. This essay dismantles the myth of biological race, traces our shared human origins, and…
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Unlearning Race has published 12 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Courses, Documentary.
Unlearning Race is currently sporadic with new episodes hourly. Average episode length is 14m.
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