Uploaded May 2010 | Updated September 2026, 28 minutes ago
To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit:
newsreel.org/video/RACE-THE-POWER-OF-AN-ILLUSION
Episode 2- 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."
To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit:
newsreel.org/video/RACE-THE-POWER-OF-AN-ILLUSION
Episode 2- 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."
