Poster for Racism: A History

BBC Four 2007 1 season 3 eps Ended

Racism: A History

2007 1 season 3 eps

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Season 1

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Season 1

50 min

S1 · E1 · Mar 21, 2007

The Colour of Money Episode 1

The series begins by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.

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50 min

S1 · E2 · Mar 28, 2007

Fatal Impacts Episode 2

Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race. Some upsetting scenes.

50 min

S1 · E3 · Apr 4, 2007

A Savage Legacy Episode 3

The third and final episode examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century. By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa. Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation. Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century's greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonial rule. Contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.

3 episodes in Season 1

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Racism: A History is a three-part British documentary series originally broadcast on BBC Four in March 2007. It was part of the season of programmes broadcast on the BBC marking the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act 1807, a landmark piece of legislation which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. The series explores the impact of racism on a global scale and chronicles the shifts in the perception of race and the history of racism in Europe, the Americas, Australia and Asia. The series was narrated by Sophie Okonedo.

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Sophie Okonedo

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After Earth

Hotel Rwanda

Total runtime 3h 0m · Episode length 60 min · Type Miniseries

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Premiered

March 21, 2007

Final episode

April 4, 2007

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Four

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Miniseries

Episode length

60 min

Total runtime

3h 0m

Original language

English

Production

United Kingdom

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Spoken on screen

English

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