Race : the power of an illusion

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Label

Race : the power of an illusion

Title remainder

the power of an illusion

Statement of responsibility

produced by California Newsreel ; in association with the Independent Television Service ; series creator/executive producer, Larry Adelman ; series co-producer, Jean Cheng

Title variation

Power of an illusion

Contributor

• Herbes-Sommers, Christine
• Ragazzi, Claudio
• Scott, Chuck
• Cheng, Jean
• Smith, Llewellyn
• Curran, Tom
• Adelman, Larry
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Carlson, Cob
• California Newsreel (Firm)
• Ford Foundation
• Strain, Tracy Heather
• Pounder, C. C. H.
• Independent Television Service
• MacLowry, Randall
• Fahey, Thomas J., (Thomas Joseph)

Cinematographer

• Curran, Tom
• Fahey, Thomas J., (Thomas Joseph)

Composer

• Ragazzi, Claudio

Director

• Herbes-Sommers, Christine
• Smith, Llewellyn
• Strain, Tracy Heather

Editor

• Scott, Chuck
• Carlson, Cob
• MacLowry, Randall

Narrator

• Pounder, C. C. H.

Producer

• Herbes-Sommers, Christine
• Cheng, Jean
• Smith, Llewellyn
• Adelman, Larry
• Strain, Tracy Heather

Screenwriter

• Herbes-Sommers, Christine
• Smith, Llewellyn
• Strain, Tracy Heather

Subject

• Racism -- Economic aspects
• Documentary television programs
• Racism
• DNA, Mitochondrial -- analysis
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• United States -- Race relations | History
• DVD-Video discs
• Genetics, Medical
• Race
• Human genetics -- Social aspects
• Nonfiction television programs
• Race relations -- History
• Race -- Social aspects
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | History
• Racism -- Social aspects
• Continental Population Groups
• Eugenics -- United States -- History
• Mitochondrial DNA -- Analysis
• Prejudice
• Video recordings
• Race -- Economic aspects
• Human genetics
• Eugenics

Genre

• Nonfiction television programs
• Documentary television programs
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• DVD-Video discs
• Video recordings

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

[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

Related

• Difference between us
• House we live in
• Story we tell

Cataloging source

IBK

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Claudio Ragazzi ; editors, Chuck Scott, Andrea Williams (episode 1), Randall MacLowry, Cob Carlson (episode 2), and Bernice Schneider (episode 3) ; camera, Thomas Fahey (episodes 1 and 3) and Tom Curran, Peter Nelson, Michael Anderson, Richard S. Butler (episode 2)

Funding information

Major funding provided by the Ford Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Language note

English audio; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

LC call number

GN269

LC item number

.R337 2003

PerformerNote

Narrator, C.C.H. Pounder

Runtime

168

Target audience

general

Technique

live action