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James Horton

Historian

James O. Horton (1943–2017) was Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University, and Director of the Afro-American Communities Project of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.

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How is racism different from prejudice?
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Is there a distinction between race and racism?
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Why are there different levels of advancement in varying countries by race?
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What role has the Bible played in the construction of racial inequalities?
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What is the origin of the word "race?"
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Slavery is long over, how does race affect us today?
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How do we dispel racist ideology?
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Are people who are similar naturally drawn to one another?
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How does the U.S. history of race and slavery compare to slavery in the rest of world history?
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Didn't the Founding Fathers oppose slavery?
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Why was a racist ideology so easy for white America to accept and internalize?
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Why were only Africans enslaved?
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Has race always been with us?
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interview
James O. Horton
A look at the fluidity of racial identities in early colonial America, the long history of slavery not based on race, and how the rationalization of slavery continues to affect us today.

James O. Horton (1943–2017) was Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University, and Director of the Afro-American Communities Project of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.

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