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Article Share: "Ethnic Notions"
Sometimes you come across something that blows your mind and you wish that you had time to explore it further. Well this is mine! This documentary produced/directed by Marlon Riggs and narrated by Esther Role discusses the early commerical/social images of Black people in American culture and how that has created the America we live in today.
As a progressive Black, the images were troubling at first view and progressed into undefinable pronouncements. As an artist, it continues to fuel my passion to challenge and question current concepts on race and build a new vocabulary when discussing work from people of color and, more specifically, Black people.
PLEASE take the 5:00 minutes to watch this clip and be as entertained/enthralled/enraged/encouraged as I was.
P.S. If you have time, check out this clip from another Riggs documentary called “Color Adjustment” that tracks the history of Blacks on television over a 40 year span.
