SKIN
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"SKIN" is a film about the life of Sandra Laing, a black child born in 1950s South Africa to proud white Afrikaners, who are blithely unaware of their black ancestry. "Skin" is as much about the senselessness and contradictions of racial determinism as it is about Laing, who in South African terms, was initially viewed as "colored." Her legal transition from colored to whiteness to blackness became one of the test cases of the apartheid regime in its quest to create an authoritarian racialist society. The movie, starring Sophie Okonedo in the title role, along with Sam Neill, Alice Krige and Tony Kgoroge, takes us chronologically (and painfully) through more than 35 years of apartheid. No movie can truly capture the systematic violence visited upon millions of people for generations, but SKIN gives us a glimpse of psychological debilitation, especially of children, and is guaranteed to re-open our eyes to a chapter in recent history that many would soon forget. My report on the film can be downloaded here: Download MP3
Download MP3
"SKIN" is a film about the life of Sandra Laing, a black child born in 1950s South Africa to proud white Afrikaners, who are blithely unaware of their black ancestry. "Skin" is as much about the senselessness and contradictions of racial determinism as it is about Laing, who in South African terms, was initially viewed as "colored." Her legal transition from colored to whiteness to blackness became one of the test cases of the apartheid regime in its quest to create an authoritarian racialist society. The movie, starring Sophie Okonedo in the title role, along with Sam Neill, Alice Krige and Tony Kgoroge, takes us chronologically (and painfully) through more than 35 years of apartheid. No movie can truly capture the systematic violence visited upon millions of people for generations, but SKIN gives us a glimpse of psychological debilitation, especially of children, and is guaranteed to re-open our eyes to a chapter in recent history that many would soon forget. My report on the film can be downloaded here: Download MP3
FRIDAY, October 30th, 2009 on THE COLOR INITIATIVE on The World (PRI, BBC and WGBH)
http://www.theworld.org/2009/07/24/color-initiative/
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The Color Initiative is funded by the Ford Foundation
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The Color Initiative is funded by the Ford Foundation
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