Race: The Power Of An Illusion: Film Analysis

The film, “Race: The Power of an Illusion (The House We Live in)” explores race from many different perspectives. The film takes the audience through a timeline of history, showing just how inconsiderate America was towards minority groups and the hardships that they were forced to face. While watching the film, I observed many different ideas, but one truly stood out to me. This idea, the idea that whiteness was the key to citizenship stuck with me. It made me feel upset, and I began to wonder how could individuals, simply because of the color of their skin be the “key.” It also made me wonder how could my country be so cruel to think that there was only one way, and that way was the “white” way. It frustrated me to think that race played such a big role in people’s lives, and …show more content…
This film showed me that skin tone is merely just a color, and it doesn’t determine anything unless it is given social meaning.
I felt that the film was informative and very eye opening. It has taught me that skin tone is simply a color and it doesn’t define a person or make them any less than any other person. Seeing how minority groups were treated and how they responded to this treatment was amazing to me and it made me feel both happy and sad. It made me feel happy because, despite being shunned because of skin tone, they made the best out of what they could before it was taken from them. It made me feel sad, because of what minority groups had to go through. Minority groups were treated unfairly and there was no one to fend for them, not even the country they loved dearly. For example, an event that is meaningful and has had a lasting impact on me from the film was Takao Ozawa’s fight for citizenship. Takao Ozawa was a Japanese