It's time to get academic and retrace our roots because this issue of race just might tear this "melting pot" of a country apart.
watch this--
Race: The Power of Illusion is a 3-part educational documentary produced by California Newsreel and funded by PBS, the Ford Foundation and CPD.
It is an investigation of race in science, and history, and of course, society.
overview:
The division of people into distinct categories—“white,” “black,” “yellow,” “red” peoples—has become so widely accepted and so deeply rooted in our psyches, that most people would not think to question its veracity. This three-hour documentary tackles the theory of race by subverting the idea of race as biology, tracing the idea back to its origin in the 19th century.
It's not available for streaming anywhere but I found it downloadable from an academic site. If you're not sure about it, you can click the pic to watch the first 30 minutes or so of the documentary [streaming online]. All the links are safe. I downloaded the 3 parts and watched last night.
Links and descriptions below...
Chapter One - 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.
Chapter Two - 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."
Chapter Three - 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.
(from the wikipage)
