Reflection paper on movie Race The Power of An Illusion Part I

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:History

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the interviews conducted in the movies cover American Socio-historical and scientific aspects of race; like gene mutation and variation, origin of human race in Africa, Jim Crow segregation, development of superficial traits vs. complex traits, racial purification and its impact on Nazis and the importance of success of black athletes in thirties especially Jesse Owens. The movie mixes narrations and interviews with segments of high school students taking part in a DNA workshop to understand human variation biology. The students make comparisons of genetic similarities and differences from their DNA samples and start the workshop with the general thought that they are similar to any other group of students in the same race. As the workshop comes to an end, the students discover that genetic data doesn’t prove assumptions about racial ancestry.

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