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Black girl in suburbia / produced/directed by Melissa Lowery.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 030 642
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lowery, Melissa.
- Suburban life--United States.
- Suburban life.
- African American girls.
- United States.
- African American girls--United States.
- African American teenage girls.
- African American young women.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Autobiographical films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : Women Make Movies 2016.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
- digital optical stereo Dolby Digital 2.0
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD-R video region 1
- Summary:
- "For many Black girls raised in the suburbs, the experiences of going to school, playing on the playground, and living day-to-day life can be uniquely alienating. Black Girl in Suburbia looks at the suburbs of America from the perspective of women of color. Filmmaker Melissa Lowery shares her own childhood memories of navigating racial expectations both subtle and overt - including questions like, "Hey, I just saw a Black guy walking down the street; is that your cousin?" Through conversations with her own daughters, with teachers and scholars who are experts in the personal impacts of growing up a person of color in a predominately white place, this film explores the conflicts that many black girls in homogeneous hometowns have in relating to both white and Black communities" -- Container.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jason Hooper; editors, Melissa Lowery, Edward Macomber, Kara Stevens, Jason Hooper; music, Joaquin Lopez.
- Notes:
- Title from title frame.
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
- "Spoken word poem Brown Knows by La Toya Hampton."
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license. Resource Sharing not permitted.
- OCLC:
- 1002306441
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