Everything about A Girl Like Me Documentary totally explained
A Girl Like Me is a
2005 award-winning
documentary by
Kiri Davis. The seven-minute documentary examines such things as the importance of color, hair and facial features for young African American women. It won the Diversity Award at the 6th Annual
Media That Matters film festival in
New York City, and has received coverage on on various American media sources, such as CNN, ABC, NPR. The documentary has been shown on
HBO and is available, in its entirety, on mediathatmattersfest.org. The documentary was made as part of
Reel Works Teen Filmmaking.
The video begins with interviews with Kiri and her peers about how 'black' features didn't conform to society's standards of beauty. The next section was a repeat of an experiment conducted by
Kenneth Clark in the 1940s where African-American children were asked to choose between black or white dolls. In the original experiment(s) the majority of the children choose the white dolls. When Davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also choose the white dolls over the black, giving similar reasons as the original subjects, associating white with being "pretty" or "good" and black with "ugly" or "bad". The dolls used in the documentary were identical except for skin colour.
Awards
- The Diversity Award at the 6th Annual Media That Matters film festival
Screenings
Tribeca Film Festival
The 6th Annual Media That Matters.
Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival
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