Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Personal journey through black identity
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| Other authors / contributors: | Riggs, Marlon T.
Atkinson, Nicole.
Badgley, Christiane.
Kleiman, Vivian.
Hemphill, Essex.
Jones, Bill T.
Tillery, Linda.
Corbitt, Wayne T.
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
hooks, bell, 1952-
Gupton, Eric.
Independent Television Service.
Signifyin' Works (Firm)
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| Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995.
Facilitator's guide also available online.
Facilitator's guide includes bibliographical references.
DVD producer, Vivian Kleiman ; co-producer, Nicole Atkinson ; co-director and editor, Christiane Badgley ; co-editor, Bob Paris ; director of photography, Robert Shepard ; original music, Mary Watkins.
Commentary: Essex Hemphill, Bill T. Jones, Linda Tillery, Wayne T. Corbitt, Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, Eric Gupton, Marlon T. Riggs.
DVD.
Closed captioned.
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| Summary: | American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. Equally devastating, the late Marlon Riggs argued, have been the definitions of "blackness" African Americans impose upon one another which contain and reduce the black experience. In this film, Riggs meets a cross-section of African Americans grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contradictory definitions of blackness. He shows many who have felt uncomfortable and even silenced within the race because their complexion, class, sexuality, gender or speech has rendered them "not black enough," or conversely, "too black."
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