Race: The Power of an Illusion

Name: Race: The Power of an Illusion
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2003-04-24
Rating: 8.0

Overview

Race: The Power of an Illusion was a three-part series that was produced by California Newsreel and investigated race in society, science and history. The educational documentary originally screened on PBS and was primarily funded by CPD, the Ford Foundation and PBS.

Episodes

S01E01 The Difference Between Us

April 24, 2003

The Difference Between Us examines the contemporary science - including genetics - that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical...

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S01E02 The Story We Tell

April 24, 2003

The Story We Tell uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The...

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S01E03 The House We Live In

April 24, 2003

The House We Live In asks, if race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions...

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