Race: The Power of An Illusion

The Story We Tell

Directed by Tracy Heather Strain
S1 • E2    Apr 23, 2003
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."

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Cast of The Story We Tell

  • Tracy Heather StrainDirector / Writer

 

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