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The House We Live In Watch the film “The House We Live In: Race, the Power of an Illusion" (56 minutes)

Sociology

The House We Live In

Watch the film “The House We Live In: Race, the Power of an Illusion" (56 minutes). It is available at Films on Demand, our library film database. If you are accessing from your home computer, you will have to type in your M number.

1. According to the film, what is race? Is it biological? 
2. What institutional housing discrimination did you see in the film? Explain.  
3. How does the housing discrimination described in the film affect current young people even though the discriminatory practice happened several decades ago? How?

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The House We Live In

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In the film “The House We Live In: Race, the Power of an Illusion" about race based on people's behavior and attitudes and some groups get benefits from others. According to the film, race is “not a level of biological division that we find in anatomically modern humans”. Race is not biological, but it does not mean it is not real in society. In the 1930s, the federal government created the Federal Housing Administration and allowed the average person to have the opposite to own a house. An example of institutional housing discrimination in the film is when Eugene Burnett wanted to buy a house in Levittown. He was interested to buy one of the houses, but the salesman made a rude comment. The salesman says, “the owners of this development have not as yet decided to sell these homes to Negroes”. This shows that cause of his skin color he could not buy the house. Another example of housing discrimination is the banks helping with loans, but “making loans in regions that are on the rise, white communities, and making it difficult to get loans in black communities”. This shows that the banks are not being fair to the black communities. Housing discrimination described in the film affects current young people even though the discriminatory practice happened several decades because today in society people are still being discrimination of their race. I think race discrimination was a huge impact on black communities because they did not have the same opportunities as while communities.