Website review: RACE - A Girl Like Me
evilnemo discovered this in Culture/Ethnicity
•24 reviews since Feb 6, 2007
culture, race, race-ethnicity
•understandingrace.org/lived/video/index.html
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blastkist rated 10 months ago- Such a beautiful people and my heart broke to hear those little ones refer to being black as bad. What has our world done to us?
- fbwl0212 rated 11 months ago
- awesome documentary
- kwiz rated 13 months ago
- as soon as i was old enough to get my own hair cut, it was kept short (#2 at longest). i used to dislike it (perhaps because of how my nana and mum used to brush it, or p'haps getting called picki head etc... when i mixed with the ignorant in schools) i started growing it at 24. i wish i'd grown my curls to see them. (my daughter has beautiful hair, but at times she wishes it were straight. this is a case of grass is greener tho). i know peolple who have tried to lighten their skin with bleach as children. grandparents (white) getting them to do 'nose exercises' to 'de-broaden'. enbarassed to have lips. it's layers deep in a long history. first written accounts, perhaps by plato when his discourse proclaimed the kemetic peoples aesthically inferior, to the 'european [classical greek perfection] ideal' from the page"In her documentary, A Girl Like Me, teen filmmaker Kiri Davis conducts interviews with her peers to explore the impact and consequences of these messages. She then reconducts Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test" with young African American children with sobering results. After you've watched the film, consider this: Does the concept of "race" enhance or decrease self-worth in children? Can skin color and hair texture determine a person's value in the world?"
- wenwest rated 14 months ago
- powerful and thought-provoking
- NinaB rated 14 months ago
"What messages does our society give children about their value and worth as human beings?" heartbreaking
- martiabi rated 15 months ago
- this is one of the most horrifying things i've viewed (with the exception of jesus camp) the internalization of racist views in our social institution are vile and deplorable
- nachtgespenst rated 15 months ago
- the look on the girl's face when she was asked which doll looks like her.. heartbreaking. when does this stop?
- lizedits rated 15 months ago
- Powerful video by a gifted and promising young filmmaker and anthropologist. We are--each and every one of us--responsible for banishing the kinds of crippling stereotypes that damage the spirits of young people as shown in the video.
