Matters of Race "Matters of Race" encourages its audience to reconsider the architecture of race, its role in American democracy and its relationship to power in America. Using personal memoirs, autobiographies, interviews and letters from several leading authors, the series explores the complex demands of the country's rapidly changing multiracial and multicultural society. Race, culture, power and identity are the four themes at the center of each episode. Each program uses personal stories of American writers as the centerpiece. When's it on? Visit the Site When do you think immigrants become Americans? Do you think the U.S. government be responsible for deciding who is American? Do you think public money should be used to support undocumented residents of a town or city? What, if any, differences do you think there are between how we confront issues of race in our private lives and issues of race in the public sphere? Do you think we live in a colorblind society? Why or why not? Do you agree or disagree that American Indians should be defined as a "race?" How does one define who is an American Indian or a member of an American Indian nation such as Seneca, Lakota, Navajo or Apache? Who do you think has the right to create the terms of that definition? Do you think Native Hawaiians should have the same status as other indigenous peoples of the Americas? In your opinion, should the way you identify yourself racially be a political issue? Do you think it's important to teach children to see race as a part of their identity? Thanks to Roja Productions for their contribution to these discussion questions.
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