WUNRN
Women Make Movies
FILM SEGMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-_JDnlrHmE
This
important film examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black
women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities
today. Though more than 100 years have passed since the doors to higher
education opened for Black women, their numbers as faculty members are woefully
low and for many still, the image of Black women as intellectuals is
incomprehensible. And while overtly expressed racism, sexism and discrimination
have declined, their presence is often still often unacknowledged. Through
frank and sometimes humorous conversations, this documentary interrogates
notions of education for girls and women and the stereotypes and traditions
that affect the status of Black women both in and out of the Academy. A perfect
companion film for any classroom discussion on the intersection of racism,
sexism and/or feminism.