Race: The Power of an Illusion (2003)

April. 24,2003

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Race: The Power of an Illusion

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.

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Race: The Power of an Illusion

2003

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2003

3 Episode

Episode 1 - 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 traits.

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Episode 2 - 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 episode is an eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American social inequalities as "natural."

Episode 3 - 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 "make" race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people.