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A Question of Color is the first documentary to confront a painful and long taboo subject: the disturbing feelings many African Americans harbor about themselves and their appearance. African American filmmaker Kathe Sandler digs into the often subconscious world of "color consciousness,"...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sandler, Kathe (Director, Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Original language in English.
Published: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1993.
Series:Black studies in video
Subjects:
African Americans > Race identity.
Body image > United States.
Color > Psychological aspects.
Race awareness > United States.
Post-Civil Rights Era (1970- )
Family and Culture.
Race relations.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Image du corps > États-Unis.
Couleur > Aspect psychologique.
Conscience de race > États-Unis.
African Americans > Race identity
Body image
Color > Psychological aspects
Race awareness
United States
Documentary.
Nonfiction films
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:A Question of Color is the first documentary to confront a painful and long taboo subject: the disturbing feelings many African Americans harbor about themselves and their appearance. African American filmmaker Kathe Sandler digs into the often subconscious world of "color consciousness," a caste system based on how closely skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).
Physical Description:1 online resource (58 minutes)
Playing Time:00:57:48