American Denial: An American Dilemma
Clip: Season 16 Episode 9 | 2m 54s
American Denial premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, February 23, 2015.
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary American Denial, we are introduced to Swedish researcher Gunnar Myrdal, who began his investigation into American values and views on equality in the 1930s. Myrdal’s unsettling study An American Dilemma was published in 1944, and the questions it raised about racial oppression still trouble us today.
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American Denial: An American Dilemma
Clip: Season 16 Episode 9 | 2m 54s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary American Denial, we are introduced to Swedish researcher Gunnar Myrdal, who began his investigation into American values and views on equality in the 1930s. Myrdal’s unsettling study An American Dilemma was published in 1944, and the questions it raised about racial oppression still trouble us today.
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American Denial: Implicit Bias Test
Clip: S16 Ep9 | 2m 14s | American Denial premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, February 23, 2015. (2m 14s)
American Denial: People at the Margins
Clip: S16 Ep9 | 1m 55s | American Denial premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, February 23, 2015. (1m 55s)
Coming to Independent Lens: American Denial
Preview: S16 Ep9 | 30s | American Denial premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, February 23, 2015. (30s)
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