A Question Of Color

A Question Of Color / Produced and Directed by Kathe Sandler.

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
Published: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1993.
Subjects:
African Americans > Race identity.
Body image > United States.
Color > Psychological aspects.
Race awareness > United States.
African Americans > Race identity
Body image
Color > Psychological aspects
Race awareness
United States
Nonfiction films
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
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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
Language:In English.
Original language in English.

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