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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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Difference Between Us
24-04-2003The 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...
- Ep 2
2.The Story We Tell
24-04-2003The 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 imagi...
- Ep 3
3.The House We Live In
24-04-2003The 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 socia...
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