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Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Writer., Réalisatrice, Scénariste Écrivaine. Livre et film : Trop Noire Pour Être Française (Too Black To Be French)
Jun 29, 2020 14 tweets 6 min read
{THREAD} France used to be the land of the free for African-Americans. But the reality has always been very different for Blacks of African and Caribbean descent. Let's understand and deconstruct racism in France in 7 films - with a special focus on #women... 1. 1. The invention of the Other : BLACK VENUS (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2009)
The film shows how Saartjie Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus", is forced to play the savage to meet audience expectations, an audience that cannot imagine Black women in any other light...