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NOW PRETEND

16MM FILM; 1992.


 

How does a white man darken his skin and purport to be black like me? And what is this monolithic idea of Blackness anyway? Reminiscences by John Howard Griffin, Dorothy Gilliam, and Sonya Clark provide guideposts to explore race as an arbitrary signifier, in this short film.



Response by Onyeka Igwe: