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In abundant detail, Ethnic Notions shows how white media have
depicted blacks as a) ugly, b) savages and c) happy servants, impervious to
poverty, slavery or segregation. It goes without saying that that’s unmitigated
humbug. And yet a lot of people have been brought up to believe it. Many of
them still do. Vintage drawings, still photos, film clips, Hollywood cartoons
and songs, (along with comments from scholars) make the case that blacks have
always been caricatured in stereotypes designed to rob them of their
dignity.
A POV anthology television series episode. 60 min.
Who Killed Vincent Chin?: This Oscar-nominated study of a Detroit
killing and its aftermath places the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American
engineer, in the context of an undercurrent of anti-Asian sentiment in
Detroit.
A POV anthology television series episode. 90 min.
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