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Why this season matters
This season of programmes looks at the devastating history and consequences of scientific racism.
These videos explain why Rageh Omaar has a personal stake in this; why Krishnan Guru-Murthy feels the argument around race has become shallow; and why Aarathi Prasad, presenter of Is It Better to Be Mixed Race, believes a fear of investigating genetic difference could limit medical progression.

First Documentary in the Series

Race and Intelligence: Sciences Last Taboo
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In 2007, Nobel Prize winning US scientist James Watson was quoted referring to research suggesting that black people were less intelligent than other races. His comments caused a storm of controversy, Watson was condemned.

Although he apologised for the offence he caused, his public engagements were cancelled and he left his British speaking tour in disgrace.

Meanwhile, right wing websites hailed him as the new Galileo - a martyr to political correctness that was concealing the fact that there is indeed evidence that shows different races score differently in IQ tests. But are the tests biased? Is race really a scientific category at all?

In this documentary, part of the season Race: Science's Last Taboo, Rageh Omaar sets out to find out the truth, meeting scientists who believe the research supports the view that races can be differentiated as well as those who vehemently oppose this view. By daring to ask the difficult questions, Omaar is able to explode the myths about race and IQ and reveal what he thinks are important lessons for society.

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More of the documentaries of the series and their air dates.

nice find!!

interesting

Very good documentary, thought provoking to say the least...

I'd recommend everyone watch it, whether or not it seems relevant to you, or even interest you. It has a great message, that everyone should hear, especially if you're already a parent or plan to become one some day.

Second Documentary in the Race: Sciences Last Taboo Series

Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth
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Two documentaries from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season examine the growing trend for deracialisation surgery

Episode 1: The Body
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The Body follows the emotional journeys of ethnic minorities desperate to change their bodies, as well as showing incredible surgery including pioneering limb lengthening procedures.

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Tonight the third documentary in the series "Race: Science's Last Taboo" Airs and I think it might be the best of the five documentaries because of the experience that will be shown. I hope everyone will watch it.



Are we all more racist than we realise or would like to admit? Jane Elliott, a controversial former schoolteacher from Ohio, is recreating the shocking exercise she used 40 years ago to teach her nine-year-old pupils about prejudice.

Elliott is asking 30 adult British volunteers - men and women of different ages and backgrounds - to experience inequality based on their eye colour, to show how susceptible we can all be to bigotry, and what it feels like to be on the other side of arbitrary discrimination. Does Elliott's exercise still have something to teach us four decades on and in a different country?

I will post it later tonight after it airs.

Jane Elliot's A Class Divided (1985) Frontline
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php...;show=&st=0

Eye of the Storm: Jane Elliot's Third Experiment
http://www.trainingabc.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17418

Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jane Elliott, a third grade teacher in an all-white, all-Christian small town, wanted to teach her class what it feels like to be discriminated against based on a physical characteristic over which one has no control.

She divided her students into two groups: those with brown eyes, and those with blue eyes.

DAY ONE: She tells the class the truth� about brown eyed people: that theyre lazy, stupid, dirty all of the stereotypes Americans hold about people of color.

In a matter of minutes, blue eyed students begin to get the gleam of power in their eyes. Brown eyed students sink in their chairs, and their test scores decline.

DAY TWO: Elliott introduces a twist. She tells the class that she made a mistake; blue eyed people are the inferior ones.

The cycle begins again. Once both groups of students have been on the receiving end of discrimination, Elliott brings them together to talk about how they felt and help them draw connections between their feelings that day and racism in the outside world.

Third Documentary in the Race: Sciences Last Taboo Series

The Event: How Racist Are You?
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Are we all more racist than we realise or would like to admit?

For this Channel 4 documentary Jane Elliott, a controversial former schoolteacher from Ohio, is recreating the shocking exercise she used forty years ago to teach her nine-year-old pupils about prejudice.

Elliott is asking thirty adult British volunteers - men and women of different ages and backgrounds - to experience inequality based on their eye colour to show how susceptible we can all be to bigotry, and what it feels like to be on the other side of arbitrary discrimination.

Does Elliott's exercise still have something to teach us four decades on and in a different country? Presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the exercise is observed throughout by two expert psychologists, Prof Dominic Abrams and Dr Funké Baffour, who will be unpicking the behaviour on display.



Thursday, 29th October 2009
10:00pm to 11:00pm
Channel4

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Fourth Documentary in the Race: Sciences Last Taboo Series

The Human Zoo: Sciences Dirty Secret
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This documentary from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season explores the disturbing phenomena of early 20th century human zoos

Only one hundred years ago, many of the world's leading scientists agreed with A. C. Haddon, when he wrote in his 1898 book Study of Man, that, "on the whole, the white race has progressed beyond the black race."

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, scientists were so fascinated by race that thousands of 'exotic' and indigenous people from all over the world were put on display in human zoos. They were not intended as merely entertaining freak shows but also scientific demonstrations of racial difference. Across the western world millions gawped in fascination at these 'uncivilised savages' and would depart convinced of the superiority of the white race.

This documentary explores the phenomenon of human zoos and tells the poignant story of Ota Benga, a Batwa pygmy from the Belgian Congo, who was first put on display at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair and then the Bronx Zoo where he was labelled as the 'missing link'.

As the film reveals, it was only a short step from these human zoos to the horrors of Nazi Germany as pseudo science that underpinned one, helped legitimise the other.

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Fifth Documentary in the Race: Sciences Last Taboo Series

Is It Better To Be Mixed Race?
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This documentary from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season asks is it a biological advantage to have parents of different ethnic backgrounds?

Before 1967, it was illegal in 16 American states for a black person and white person to marry. Right wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic continue to espouse that the mixing of races is destructive and against some kind of natural order.

Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed race child, sets out to challenge the ideas of racial purity and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race.

It's a controversial subject that has aroused much opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, but does greater genetic diversity confer advantages in humans, as seen in the breeding of plants and animals, or are lifestyle and environment the primary influences?

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A comprehensive study of hybrid vigour and heterozygous advantage.
PDF on article

"A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children...(Oct/2009)"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_...erracial_rebuff

Sixth & Final Documentary in the Race: Sciences Last Taboo Series

Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth



The Face. Episode 2.
Michael Jackson's radical facial transformation was shrouded in secrecy and became a contentious subject for discussion. Many saw him as a sell-out, betraying his ethnic heritage. For others he is a source of inspiration, paving the way for people to use surgery and science to change their race. Part of the Race: Science's Last Taboo season, this two part series examines the emerging trend for deracialisation surgery through the stories of six people who want to go to extreme lengths to westernise their bodies and faces. The second programme, The Face, follows three people who are desperate for 'whiter' facial features. It also explores how westernisation surgery is thriving across the globe: from double eyelid and 'face smashing' surgery in South Korea, to nose jobs in Pakistan.

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Thank you for this series Kontraband.

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