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Black girl in suburbia / Women Make Movies ; produced/directed by Melissa Lowery.
- 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.
- Autobiographical films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (54 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Distributed by] Women Make Movies, [2021]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- 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.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Melissa Lowery.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jason Hooper ; editors, Melissa Lowery, Edward Macomber, Kara Stevens, Jason Hooper ; musical composer, Joaquin Lopez.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in 2014; previously released in 2017.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 19, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-blasub Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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