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Race - The Power of An Illusion: Episode 2

Episode 2 of the 3-part series
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."

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