Black is-- black ain't a personal journey through black identity Independent Television Service.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco, CA California Newsreel 1995 ; 2004Description: 1 videodisc (86 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 inSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • DVD
Abstract: American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. Equally devastating, the late Marlon Riggs argued, have been the definitions of ""black ness"" African Americans impose upon one another which contain and reduce the bl ack experience. In this film, Riggs meets a cross-section of African Americans grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contradictory definitions of blac kness. He shows many who have felt uncomfortable and even silenced within the r ace because their complexion, class, sexuality, gender, or speech has rendered them ""not black enough,"" or conversely, ""too black."" The film scrutinizes the i dentification of ""blackness"" with masculinity as well as sexism, patriarchy and homophobia in black America.
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Director/producer, Marlon Riggs ; co-producer, Nicole Atkinson ; co-director/e ditor, Christiane Badgley ; co-editor, Bob Paris.

American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. Equally devastating, the late Marlon Riggs argued, have been the definitions of ""black ness"" African Americans impose upon one another which contain and reduce the bl ack experience. In this film, Riggs meets a cross-section of African Americans grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contradictory definitions of blac kness. He shows many who have felt uncomfortable and even silenced within the r ace because their complexion, class, sexuality, gender, or speech has rendered them ""not black enough,"" or conversely, ""too black."" The film scrutinizes the i dentification of ""blackness"" with masculinity as well as sexism, patriarchy and homophobia in black America.

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