Watch the following 29:18 minute video, which is called “The House We Live In.”

Step 1: Your Initial Post

Watch the following 29:18 minute video, which is called “The House We Live In.”

After you have watched the video, click “Reply” and answer the 4 questions that follow it. 

RACE – THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was CreatedLinks to an external site. from California NewsreelLinks to an external site. on VimeoLinks to an external site..

Questions

Click “Reply” to and answer the following questions based on the content you have read this week and the above video you watched: 

The assigned chapter for this week, along with the additional content I posted, discusses how race are social constructions. What part of the chapter or additional content I posted best helped you understand how race is a social construction? Please be specific in your answer. Also, what questions, if any, do you still have about race being a social construction? 

The assigned chapter for this week (linked above) defines and discusses of institutional racism. Before reading this chapter, had you ever heard of institutional racism and, if so, where? 

Go back to review the discussion of institutional racism discussed in this chapter. The discussion entails many examples of institutional racism. Which example(s) do you think best helped you understand what institutional racism is and how so? What questions, if any, do you still have about institutional racism?

What are three scenes from the above video, “The House We Live In,” that stood out to you? Please be sure to be detailed in your answer so that we all know which scene you are referring to (if it helps, you can indicate the minutes and seconds so we can return to it). Explain why each of these three scenes stood out to you.