Race: The Power of an Illusion - Season 1
Season 1
Network
DatesApr. 24, 2003 - Apr. 24, 2003
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
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.
Apr. 24, 2003
Season 1Episode 260 min
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."
Apr. 24, 2003
Season 1Episode 360 min
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.
Apr. 24, 2003
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