Uploaded September 2010 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago

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To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit: newsreel.org/video/RACE-THE-POWER-OF-AN-ILLUSION
"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.