| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Race: The Power of an Illusion <http://www.pbs.org/race/>. Created and maintained by California Newsreel. Reviewed April 10–12, 2004.
Let's begin with the three-part film series. In Race: The Power of an Illusion, California Newsreel and its co-director Larry Adelman (the driving force behind the project) have crafted a documentary that is both accessible and sophisticated. Making use of state-of-the-art scientific, historical, and social-scientific accounts, the series takes the viewer on a detailed tour of a wide range of attitudes and beliefs about race. It exposes the many misconceptions and inadequacies of the "common sense" views into which we have all been deeply socialized.	1
Most notably, the series explains and uses genetic mapping and recent advances in human genomics to demonstrate the enormous variability within racially defined groups that supposedly share key corporeal characteristics; it links the racialization of U.S. society to the historical processes that created modern North America—colonization and settlement, slavery, migration, etc.; and it explores and analyzes the reproduction of racial inequality, as well as concepts of racial difference, in the recent past and, indeed, in the present. It effectively and accessibly anatomizes racial segregation, stratification, privilege and disadvantage, violence, fear, and guilt in the United States.	. . .

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