Black is-- black ain't
Subtitle: a personal journey through black identity
By: Independent Television Service ; Signifyin' Works ; produced and directed by Marlon T. Riggs
Contributors: 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); California Newsreel (Firm)
Series: CED 603 (NU course); SOC 350 (NU course)
Publisher: California Newsreel
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: African Americans; Race identity; Attitudes; Color; Social aspects; African American gays; Stereotypes (Social psychology); Psychology; African American men; African American women
Other titles: Personal journey through black identity
Description: 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."
Notes: Originally produced in 1995.

Facilitator's guide includes bibliographical references.

DVD producer, Vivian Kleiman ; co-producer, Nicole Atkinson ; co-director/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.