Race: The Power of an Illusion (2003)

Season 1

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.

Released April 24, 2003 Episode 42 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: imdb.scientific-racism, imdb.racial-inequality, imdb.cultural-lens, imdb.physical-appearance, imdb.racial-stereotype, imdb.white-privilege, imdb.biogeographical-ancestry + 14 more, imdb.social-constructionism, imdb.social-construct, imdb.skin-color, imdb.structural-racism, imdb.whiteness, imdb.classification, imdb.stereotype, imdb.ancestry, imdb.power, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.discrimination, imdb.prejudice, imdb.racism, imdb.race

Network: PBS

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb

7.2

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Trakt

/4/

TMDb

/1/

S1E1 - The Difference Between Us

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.

April 24, 2003, midnight

S1E2 - The Story We Tell

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."

April 24, 2003, midnight

S1E3 - The House We Live In

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.

April 24, 2003, midnight

Network: PBS

Episode Runtime: 42 min.

Season Runtime: 42 min.

Released: April 24, 2003

Last Air Date: April 24, 2003, midnight

Status: Returning Series

Certification: NR

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