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- California Newsreel, founded in 1968, is an American non-profit, social justice film distribution and production company based in San Francisco, California. Their educational media resources include both documentary and feature films, with a focus on the advancement of racial justice and diversity, and the study of African American life and history, as well as African culture and politics. In 2006, Newsreel launched a new thematic focus for their work: Globalization, with an emphasis on the global economy and the international division of labor. Several of California Newsreel's films have been broadcast on PBS.
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Race: The Power of An Illusion av Larry Adelman
The Power of an Illusion challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups. This definitive three-part series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs.
challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that human beings come divided into a few distinct groups. This definitive three-part series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs.
The second episode, The Story We Tell, questions the belief that race has always been with us. Ancient peoples stigmatized "others" based on language, custom and especially religion, but they did not sort people into "races."
Instead, the program traces the rare concept to the European conquest of the Americas, including the development of the first slave system where all slaves shared a physical trait- dark skin. Ironically, it wasn't until slavery was challenged on moral grounds that early prejudices- emboldened by the need to defend slavery in a nation that professed a deep belief in freedom- crystallized into a full-blown ideology of white supremacy. By the mid-19th century, race had become the "commonsense" wisdom of white America, explaining everything from individual behavior to the fate of whole societies. The Story We Tell reveals the startling story of how social inequalities came to be disguised as "natural".… (mer)
The second episode, The Story We Tell, questions the belief that race has always been with us. Ancient peoples stigmatized "others" based on language, custom and especially religion, but they did not sort people into "races."
Instead, the program traces the rare concept to the European conquest of the Americas, including the development of the first slave system where all slaves shared a physical trait- dark skin. Ironically, it wasn't until slavery was challenged on moral grounds that early prejudices- emboldened by the need to defend slavery in a nation that professed a deep belief in freedom- crystallized into a full-blown ideology of white supremacy. By the mid-19th century, race had become the "commonsense" wisdom of white America, explaining everything from individual behavior to the fate of whole societies. The Story We Tell reveals the startling story of how social inequalities came to be disguised as "natural".… (mer)
challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that human beings come divided into a few distinct groups. This definitive three-part series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs.
Everyone can tell a Nubian from a Norwegian, so why not divide people into races? That's the question taken up by the first episode, The Difference Between Us, which demonstrates how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. The program follows a dozen students, including Black athletes and Asian American string players, who sequence and compare their own DNA. The results surprise them- and us- when they discover their closest genetic matches are as likely to be with people from other "races" as their own.
Much of the program is devoted to understanding why. Looking at skin color differences, disease, human evolution, even genetic traits, we learn there's not one characteristic, one trait, or even a single gene that distinguishes all members of one "race" from another. One by one, our myths about race- including "natural" superiority and inferiority- are taken apart.… (mer)
Everyone can tell a Nubian from a Norwegian, so why not divide people into races? That's the question taken up by the first episode, The Difference Between Us, which demonstrates how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. The program follows a dozen students, including Black athletes and Asian American string players, who sequence and compare their own DNA. The results surprise them- and us- when they discover their closest genetic matches are as likely to be with people from other "races" as their own.
Much of the program is devoted to understanding why. Looking at skin color differences, disease, human evolution, even genetic traits, we learn there's not one characteristic, one trait, or even a single gene that distinguishes all members of one "race" from another. One by one, our myths about race- including "natural" superiority and inferiority- are taken apart.… (mer)
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