RACE—The Power of an Illusion was produced by California Newsreel, in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS). Major funding was provided by the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Diversity Fund. Additional funding was provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Lida and Alejandro Zaffaroni, Akonadi Foundation, the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and Nu Lambda Trust.
The Spanish subtitles/episode transcripts were produced by and courtesy of the Anti-Racism Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
SERIES
Creator/Executive Producer
Larry Adelman
Narrator
CCH Pounder
Original Music
Claudio Ragazzi
Field Producer
Natatcha Estebanez
Co-Producer
Jean Cheng
Treatment Writer
Sharon Wood
Sound Design and Mix
Richard Bock
Title Design
Alison Kennedy
Gaye Korbet
Bruce Walker
Post-Production Supervisor
Stephanie Mills
Online Editor
Michael Amundson / Outpost
Narration Recording
LA Studios
Advisers
Ira Berlin
John Cheng
Troy Duster
Alan Goodman
Joseph Graves
Evelynn Hammonds
Faye Harrison
Richard Lewontin
Jonathan Marks
Michael Omi
Robert Pollack
Audrey Smedley
Patricia Williams
Consultants
Barbara Fields
Neil Gotanda
Kenneth Kidd
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Edmund Morgan
Leith Mullings
Clara Rodriguez
Assistant Producers
Innbo Shim
Jannette Eng
Research/Development
Anushka Baltes
Lisa Clark
Bayo Holsey
Alan Kuo
Paul Lee
Paulette Young
Special Thanks
Edgar Beckham
Lawrence Daressa
Donald Kennedy
Cornelius Moore
Joanne Sonn
Elsie Stark / Stark Naked Productions
Donald Young
EPISODE ONE: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US
Written, produced and directed by
Christine Herbes-Sommers
Edited by
Chuck Scott
Andrea Williams
Associate Producer
Sandra Haller
Camera
Tom Fahey
Sound
Clint Bramesco
Production Coordinator
Rudy Estrada
Consulting Producer
Bebe Nixon
Additional Camera
Austin deBesche
Richard S. Butler
A.J. Fielder
Larry LeCain
Diana Wilmar
Additional Sound
Wellington Jon Bowler
Clint Bresnahan
David Fox
Eric Shoenfeld
Music Recording
Mark Wessel / Wellspring
Musicians
Alon Yavnai
Beth Cohen
Alan del Castillo
Cameron Sawzin
Anat Cohen
Santiago Gomez
Dan Greenspan
Bertram Lehmann
Claudio Ragazzi
Additional Production
Michael Boston
Greg Chiodo
Jennifer Cogswell
Christopher de Besche
Charles Griswold
Laurence Mazouni
Lisa Nagid
Nanette Riendeau
Interns
Gail O'Connor
Nailah Jefferson
Erin Mackey
Claire Sulmers
Esther Sungeun Yoo
Tyrone Tanous
Rick Ung
Additional Visuals
WGBH Resource Center
Lee Shane
Neoscape
Historical Consultant
Paul Lombardo
DNA Workshop
Kousha Baustista-Saeyan
Jamil Bradshaw
Young Jin Choi
Gorgeous Harper
Heather Hemmens
Kiril Johnson
Marcus Johnson
Jaclyn Matayoshi
Hannah Nelson
John Parks-Ramage
Noah Rosenblum
Natalia Valaci
Special Thanks
Anne Bell
Veronica Bordeau
Scott Bronson
California Academy of Science
George Chaplin
William Dressler
Marjorie Glickman
Amelia Gray
John S. Haller, Jr.
AJ Holzherr
Nina Jablonski
Kelly Lawman
Edward Morman
Larry Murphy
John Murray
Eric Nisbet-Brown
Maura Power
Adrienne Sockwell
George, Jackie & Josephine Washburn
Beaver Country Day School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Childrens Hospital, Boston
Dolan DNA Learning Center / Cold Spring Harbor Lab
University of Washington
Walnut Hill School
Archival Material
Allsport / NBA Photos
Amherst County Museum
American Museum of Natural History
American Philosophical Society
Mirra Bank / Nobody's Girls
Bettman/Corbis
Burns Archive
Chicago Defender
Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Cleveland Public Library
CNN
Columbia University
F.I.L.M. Archives
Fox Movietonews
George Eastman House
Getty Images
Grinberg Film Library
John E. Allen
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Mathers Museum / Indiana University
Moorland-Spingarn Center, Howard University
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
NASA
National Anthropological Archives / Smithsonian
National Archives
National Geographic
National Library of Medicine
National Museum of Health & Medicine
NBC News Archives
Negro Digest Magazine
New York Public Library
Ohio State University
Photo Researchers
Pilobolus Dance Company
Producers Library Service
Random House
Reuters
Joseph Rubin
Sekani
SVT Sveriges Television AB
University of Albany / SUNY
U.S. Olympic Committee
Temple University Press
Transit Film / Bundesfilmarchiv
Truman State University / Pickler Library
WGBH Boston
Program Advisers
Andrew Berry
Pilar Ossorio
EPISODE TWO: THE STORY WE TELL
Written, produced and directed by
Tracy Heather Strain
Edited by
Randall MacLowry
Cob Carlson
Associate Producer
Jennifer Pearce
Consulting Producer
Susan Bellows
Camera
Tom Curran
Peter Nelson
Michael Anderson
Richard S. Butler
Sound
Paul Goudreau
Mario Cardenas
Merce Williams
Wellington Jon Bowler
Photo Animator
Alisa Placas
Art Direction
Daryl Myers
Production Assistant/Assistant Editor
Rachelle Dang
Production Coordinator
Jonathan Loewald
Contributing Co-Producer
Adam Zucker
Assistant Editor
Rachel Clark
Additional Editing
Rachel Reichman
Voice Casting
Boston Casting
Voice Recording
Dexter Media
Music Recording
Mark Wessel / Wellspring
Musicians
Beth Cohen
Alan del Castillo
Cameron Sawzin
Anat Cohen
Santiago Gomez
Dan Greenspan
Bertram Lehmann
Claudio Ragazzi
Tim Ray
Additional Production
Natatcha Estebanez
Austin deBesche
Win Wilford
Charles Griswold
Interns
Vriana Bohling
Alice Engel
Kwesi Johnson
Elida Kamine
Eden Knudsen
Claudia Macleod
Research
Micheal Dolan
Maia Harris
Rashida Johnson
Tish King
WGBH
Special Thanks
Angélica Allende Brisk
Community Church of Boston
Philip Deloria
Florentine Films
Scott Malcomson
Kenan Malik
Janet Monge
John Moukad
Tom Nicholson
One Art Productions
Judy Richardson
Terry Kay Rockefeller
Lucia Small
Leslie Strain
Anne Marie Stein
Susanna Steisel
University Museum
Judith Vecchione
Noland Walker
Jamila Wignot
Gretchen Worden
Map Template
Mountain High Maps®, 1993
Archival Material
Albany Institute of History and Art
American Antiquarian Society
Annenberg Rare Books Library, University of Pennsylvania
Architect of the Capitol
Art Resource
Bancroft Library
Eric Breitbart
Buffalo Bill Historical Center / Cody, WY
Butler Institute of American Art
California State Library
Colorado Historical Society
Columbia University Library
Corbis
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Countway Medical Library / Harvard University
Denver Public Library
Field Museum, Chicago
Greg French
Stanley J. Forman
George Eastman House
Georgia Division of Archives and History
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Getty Images
Gilcrease Museum
Greenville County Museum
Harvard University Archives
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Independence National Historic Park
Age Ignacio
J. Paul Getty Museum
Library Company of Philadelphia
Library of Congress
Library of Virginia
Madison County Historical Society
Massachusetts Historical Society
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Missouri Historical Society
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Museum of the City of New York
National Academy of Sciences
National Archives
National Archives of Canada
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
New Hampshire Historical Society
New York Daily Tribune
New York Public Library
North Wind Archives
Ohio Historical Society
Oklahoma Historical Society
Peabody Museum
Periodyssey
Royal Geographical Society / London
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Smithsonian Anthropological Archives
St. Louis Art Museum
St. Louis Public Library
Terra Museum of American Art
Tig Productions, Inc.
Toledo Museum of Art
U.S. Army Military Historical Institute
U.S. Senate Commission on Art
Villon Films
Virginia Historical Society
Walters Art Museum
Washington University Gallery of Art
West Virginia Humanities Council
WGBH
Wyoming State Archives
Jim Zwick
EPISODE THREE: THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN
Written, produced and directed by
Llewellyn M. Smith
Edited by
Bernice Schneider
Associate Producer
Julia Elliott
Camera
Thomas Fahey
Sound
Clint Bramesco
Keith McManus
Production Assistant/Assistant Editor
Jamila Wignot
Production Assistant
Rudy Estrada
Additional Camera
Emiko Omori
Austin deBesche
Additional Sound
Glenn Yoshida
Music Recording
Mark Wessel / Wellspring
Musicians
Alon Yavnai
Beth Cohen
Alan del Castillo
Cameron Sawzin
Anat Cohen
Santiago Gomez
Dan Greenspan
Bertram Lehmann
Claudio Ragazzi
Photo Animation
Berle Cherney
Kingpin Interactive, Inc.
Interns
Christopher Amar
Katherine McMorran
Matthew Ozug
Jonathan Amar
Monica Castillo
Joseph Charat
Tanya Ellis
Pablo de la Huerta
Rosanna Mancino
Alissa Martin
Tiana Peterson
Hanae Tokita
Research
Rekha Balu
Bonnie Rowan
Lee Shane
WGBH Resource Center
Additional Production
Lisa Nagid
Christopher de Besche
Michael Boston
Greg Chiodo
Jennifer Cogswell
Nanette Riendeau
Thanks to
Ian Haney-Lopez, White By Law
Special Thanks
Rembert H. Brown
Rani Cardona
Diana Coleman
Karen Corsica / Scout Prod.
Ramona Crook
Micaela diLeonardo
Nancy DiTomaso
Jason Kao Hwang
Dorothy Miyashiko
Rick Prelinger
Eduardo and Rena Rojas
Kenn Rabin
Michelle Santantonio
Tom Shapiro
Edith Takeya
Tim Wise
Boston Film & Video Foundation
Community Church of Boston
Empress Diner, NY
First Parish Unitarian / Cambridge, MA
Institute for the History of Knowledge, NYU
Levittown Historical Museum
Massachusetts Historical Society
Mt. Holyoke College
Bill and Sonja Whitney
Family Archives
Cynthia Alperowicz
Eugene & Bernice Burnett
Cardona-Bagai Family
Darleen R. Dhillon
Kartar Dhillon
Polly Dwyer
Brenda Ellis-Riddick
Julian Espar Archive
Estrada Family
Bernice Frisby
Eunice L. Graves
Donald Hardway Family
Rev. Vartan Hartunian
Herb and Doris Kalisman
Phil and Sophie Morris
Sakata Family Photos
Hilda Schneider
Smith Family
Takeya Family
Joseph Tovares
Charles Winter
Robert S. Yasui
James Yee, Betty Quan, Jane & Liam Yee
Archival Material
16mmfilms.com
ABC
American Jewish Archives
American Planning Association
Associated Press
Bancroft Library / UC Berkeley
Bettman/Corbis
Brown Brothers
Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research
Center for Creative Photography / Univ. of Arizona
Charles Young Research Library, UCLA
Collection of Edith LaFrancis
Connecticut Historical Society
Culver Pictures
Detroit Free Press
George Eastman House
Getty Images
Bill Griffith, c2000, 2001
Hagley Museum & Library
Collection of Supreme Court of the United States
Harvard Theater Collection / Houghton Library
Japanese American National Museum
John E. Allen, Inc.
Kartemquin Films
Library of Congress
Loretta Morgenstern
Museum of City of NY
Museum Resource Center / California State Parks
National Afro-American Museum, Wilberforce, OH
National Archives
National Museum of American History
National Park Service / Ellis Island
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New York Public Library
Newsday
Oregon Historical Society
Pajaro Valley Historical Association
Pacific Basin Institute
Project SAVE Armenian Archives
San Francisco Chronicle
Sekani
Visual Communications
Watchorn Methodist Church Collection
WTTW Chicago
WGBH Boston
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