This three-part documentary series examines the history of race and its impacts. It is an excellent overview of important history to help you understand racial justice issues. Below are links to short excerpts from each of the three parts.

Episode One – The Difference Between Us

The Difference Between Us examines the contemporary science – including genetics – that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.

Episode Two – The Story We Tell

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.

Episode Three – The House We Live In

The House We Live In asks, if race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics, and culture.
The entire documentary series is available to view for free on www.kanopy.com. If you have a library card at any of our local library systems, you can create an account on Kanopy at no cost.