Race In The Documentary: Race The Power Of Illusion

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Nelson Mandela). The concept of race is widely debated among social classes and among the individual levels of insight. In the past doctors and many other men of science attempted to divide us by “race” in the sense that our exterior features as human beings separated us from the only race, the human race. The documentary “Race the power of an illusion” took us through the history of racial division which gave the minorities the short end of the stick. The ideology that is supported by substantial evidence that race is no more than a facade, and travels no deeper than a few exterior differences. This somewhat recent discovery has not made an impact on society. Around the world, society refuses to accept the idea that there is no such thing as one race and it affects everybody that has been raised to think we are all genetically different based on demographics and exterior features. The effects of these unscholarly and ignorant beliefs are thoroughly examined in the documentary, Langston Hughes poetry, and Alan McPherson short stories.

It is human nature to curiously decipher what makes us different. Early scientists often had created tests to divide us by race. The tests often would contradict the …show more content…

In the film “Race the Power of illusion” the actual genetics of what makes us different are attempted to be finally put on paper, only to find out that our exterior features do not correlate people together due to similarities and that those who may look completely different could actually be more similar than previously assumed, completely eradicating this idea of separate races. The documentary also goes into seeing why we socially divide ourselves by “race” and presents the direct issues that are conceived because of this racial segregation and attempt to divide

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