Race
Subtitle: the power of an illusion
By: produced by California Newsreel ; in association with the Independent Television Service
Contributors: Adelman, Larry; Herbes-Sommers, Christine; Strain, Tracy Heather; Smith, Llewellyn; California Newsreel (Firm); Independent Television Service
Series: CLD 627 (NU course); MAT 641 (NU course); SOC 500 (NU course); TED 605 (NU course); TED 667 (NU course)
Publisher: California Newsreel
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Race; Human genetics; Racism; Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Other titles: Race, the power of an illusion; Power of an illusion; Difference between us.; Story we tell.; House we live in.
Description: 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.
Notes: Executive producer, Larry Adelman; music, Claudio Ragazzi; editors, Chuck Scott, Andrea Williams (episode 1), Randall MacLowry, Cob Carlson (episode 2), and Bernice Schneider (episode 3); camera, Tom Fahey (episodes 1 and 3) and Tom Curran ... [et al.] (episode 2).

Narrator: C.C.H. Pounder.

DVD.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Table of contents: title: The difference between us / written, produced and directed by Christine Herbes-Sommers (56 min.); title: The story we tell / written, produced and directed by Tracy Heather Strain (56 min.); title: The house we live in / written, produced and directed by Llewellyn M. Smith (56 min.).