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"The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new three-hour series by California Newsreel claims. Race - The Power of an Illusion questions the very idea of race as biology, suggesting that a belief in race is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth. Yet race still matters. Just because race doesn't exist in biology doesn't mean it isn't very real, helping shape life chances and opportunities. By asking, What is this thing called 'race'?, a question so basic it is rarely asked, Race-- the power of an Illusion helps set the terms that any further discussion of race must first take into account. Ideal for human biology, anthropology, sociology, American history, American studies, and cultural studies."@en
"This program challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs that human beings come divided into a few distinct groups. It provides a look at why race is not biologically meaningful yet nonetheless very real. Contains three episodes. Episode 1: The Difference Between Us, explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. NOTE: Episode 1 begins at 00:00:42 into the video. Episode 2: The Story We Tell, questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. NOTE: Episode 2 begins at 00:57:45 into the video. Episode 3: The House We Live In, focuses on how our institutions shape and create race. NOTE: Episode 3 begins at 01:54:48 into the video."@en
"The STORY WE TELL : Hasn't race always been with us? Ancient people stigmatized "others" based on language, custom and religion, but not physical differences. This episode traces the rare concept to the European conquest of the Americans, including the development of the first labour system where all slaves shared a physical trait: dark skin. Ironically, it wasn't until slavery was challenged on moral grounds that early prejudices, emboldened by the need to defend slavery in a nation that professed a deep belief in freedom, crystallized into a full-blown ideology of white superiority. By the mid-19th century, race has become the "commonsense-wisdom" of white America, explaining everything from individual behaviour to the fate of societies. The story we tell reveals how social inequalities came to be disguised as "natural.""
"Race: The Power Of An Illusion reveals how the myth of race took hold and retains its power. What if we suddenly discovered that our most basic assumption about race - for instance, that the world's people can be divided biologically along racial lines - was false? And if race is a biological "myth," where did the idea come from? How do our institutions give race social meaning and power by advantaging white people? These are just a few of the questions raised by Race: The Power Of An Illusion. Episode 1: Everyone can tell a Nubian from a Norwegian, so why not divide people into different races? That's the question explored in "The Difference Between Us," which demonstrates how recent scientific discoveries have toppled our commonsense assumption that the world's peoples come bundled into separate groups. Episode 2: In this episode, isn't it true that race has always been with us, right? Wrong. Ancient peoples stigmatised "others" on the grounds of language, custom, class, and especially religion, but they did not sort people into races. The Story We Tell traces the origins of the racial idea to the European conquest of the Americas and to the American slave system, the first ever where all the slaves shared a physical trait: dark skin. Episode 3: But if race doesn't exist biologically, what is it? And should it matter? The final episode, "The House We Live In," is the first film on race to focus not on individual attitudes and behavior but on how our institutions leave different groups differently advantaged. Its subject is the "unmarked" race, white people. The shows makes visible the benefits that quietly and often invisibly accrue to white people, not always because of merit or hard work, but because our laws, courts, customs, and perhaps most pertinently, segregated neighborhoods, racialize opportunity.--ABC website."
"[This series] challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups. This ... series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs. Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race."@en
"Episode 1 explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode 2 questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode 3 focuses on how our institutions shape and create race."@en
""The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups--'red, ' 'black, ' 'white' or 'yellow' peoples--has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new three-hour series by California Newsreel claims. Race: The Power of an Illusion questions the very idea of race as biology, suggesting that a belief in race is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth. Episode 1: 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. Episode 2: 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 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."--California Newsreel website."@en
"Challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs that human beings come divided into a few distinct groups. A look at why race is not biologically meaningful yet nonetheless very real."@en
"Challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs that human beings come divided into a few distinct groups. A look at why race is not biologically meaningful yet nonetheless very real."
"[This series] challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups, telling an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs. Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race."@en
"Explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Questions the belief that race has always been with us. Traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Shows how our institutions shape and create race."
"The HOUSE WE LIVE IN : If race doesn't "live" with our bodies, where does it live? Any why should it matter? The final episode reveals how our institutions give race its meaning and power by advantaging the "unmarked" race: white people. Who is white? In the early 20th century, the answer wasn't clear. Often the courts had to decide, and they resorted to inconsistent racial categories to maintain the color line. After World War II, European ethnics, once considered not quite white, blended together and reaped the advantages of whiteness in new suburbs (made possible by government money and policies) while African Americans and other nonwhites were locked out. Today, the typical white family has eight times the wealth of the average Black family. Forty years after the Civil Rights Movement, the playing field is still not level and "colour blind" policies only perpetuate these inequities."
"This three-part documentary series reveals how the myth of race took hold and retains its power. What if we suddenly discovered that our most basic assumption about race - for instance, that the world's people can be divided biologically along racial lines - was false? And if race is a biological "myth," where did the idea come from? How do our institutions give race social meaning and power by advantaging white people? Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race."@en
"This three-part documentary series reveals how the myth of race took hold and retains its power. What if we suddenly discovered that our most basic assumption about race - for instance, that the world's people can be divided biologically along racial lines - was false? And if race is a biological "myth," where did the idea come from? How do our institutions give race social meaning and power by advantaging white people? Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race."
"The Difference between us: Our eyes tell that people look different. Everyone can distinguish a Norwegian from a Nubian, so why doesn't it make sense to sort people into biological races? The first episode demonstrates how scientific findings, including genetics, have toppled out assumption that humans come bundled into distinct groups. This episode follows a dozen students, including Black athletes and Asian string players, who sequence and compare their own DNA. The results surprise the students, and the viewer, when they discover their closest genetic matches are as likely to be with people from other "races" as their own. Much of the program is devoted to understanding why. One by one, our myths and misconceptions about racial differences are taken apart."
"This series challenges our belief that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups, by showing that what we assume to be normal, commonsense, and scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs. Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us; it traces the concept of race to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race."
"A three-part documentary series, Race: the power of an illusion reveals how the myth of race took hold and retains its power. It scrutinises the very idea of race through the distinct lenses of science, history and our social institutions."
"Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race."@en
"[This series] challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups. This...series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs. Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race."@en
"This three-part documentary is about how the myth of race took hold and retained its power. It tells how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by human history, social institutions, and cultural beliefs."@en

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