NaN/100 votes#1 - The Difference Between Us
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: Christine Herbes-Sommers
Writer: Christine Herbes-Sommers
- 8.8/105 votes
#2 - The Story We Tell
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired Unknown
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."
Director: Tracy Heather Strain
Writer: Tracy Heather Strain
- 8.3/1012 votes
#3 - The House We Live In
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired Unknown
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.
Director: Llewellyn M. Smith
Writer: Llewellyn M. Smith
The Best Episodes of Race: The Power of an Illusion Season 1
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Race: The Power of an Illusion was a three-part series that was produced by California Newsreel and investigated race in society, science and history. The...
Genre:Documentary
Network:PBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Difference Between Us" is the best rated episode of "Race: The Power of an Illusion" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Christine Herbes-Sommers and written by Christine Herbes-Sommers, it aired on 1/1/1970. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Story We Tell".