Race: The Power of An Illusion

The House We Live In

Directed by Llewellyn M. Smith
S1 • E3    Apr 23, 2003
8.3
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.

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Cast of The House We Live In

  • Eduardo Bonilla-SilvaSelf - Sociologist
  • Bernice BurnettSelf - Long Island Resident
  • Eugene BurnettSelf - Long Island Resident
  • Dalton ConleySelf - Sociologist
  • Bunny FrisbySelf - Roosevelt Resident
  • Alan GoodmanSelf - Anthropologist
  • Joseph Graves Jr.Self - Biologist
  • Bill GriffithSelf - Creator of Zippy the Pinhead
  • James HortonSelf - Historian
  • Matthew JacobsonSelf - Historian
  • Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf
  • John JulianoSelf - Levittown Realtor
  • Doris KalismanSelf - Levittown Resident
  • Herb KalismanSelf - Levittown Resident
  • Mae NgaiSelf - Historian
  • Melvin OliverSelf - Sociologist
  • Pilar OssorioSelf - Legal Scholar, Biologist
  • CCH PounderSelf - Narrator
  • John PowellSelf - Legal Scholar
  • Franklin D. RooseveltSelf
  • Edith TakeyaSelf - Daughter of Takao Ozawa
  • Beverly TatumSelf - Psychologist
  • Charlie WinterSelf - Roosevelt Resident

 

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