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The Power of an Illusion: Shifting our understanding of RACE

Elaine B

This factsheet unpacks assumptions underlying ideas about 'race'. The factsheet explains the life and death significance of racialized categories.

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References

Adelman, L. (Director). (2003). The Difference Between Us (Season 1, Episode 1) [TV series episode]. Jeng, J. (Writer). Race: The Power of Illusion. California Newsreel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXeb5eQ2b3Q
Jahoda, Gustav. "Intra-European Racism in the Nineteenth-Century Anthropology." History and Anthropology 20, no. 1 (2009): 37-57.

Source Authors

Gustav Jahoda, Larry Adelman

Keywords

'Race' as a Political Tool, Body Politics, Challenge Assumptions, Challenge Yourself, Confronting Prejudice, Constructing 'Race', Constructing Difference, Constructing Race, Critical Race Theory, Deconstructing Popular Ideas, DNA as a concept, Interrupting Assumptions, Knowledge and Power, Racialization, Racist Hierarchies, Reimagining, Representations and Power, Scientific Ideas and Power, Scientific Racism

Themes

Activism, Theory