Skin Deep Film

In Frances Reid's film Skin Deep: Building Diverse Campus Communities, the filmmaker observes students from four different campuses as they undergo a challenging racial awareness retreat. In an effort to understand their views and feelings on race, the filmmaker also follows them on campus and to their homes. In order to promote challenging dialogue and interaction, these particularly students were chosen because of their ability to be frank about their feelings on race and diversity. As one girl named Judith states "I will not be less angry�I'm not here to tell you pretty things, that it will be alright".

The students in the film often awkwardly confront one another on race and racism. In these confrontations we see how deeply ingrained are the roots of prejudice and hatred. More importantly we see how prejudice and racism have an impact on

Related Essays

Beauty and the Beast .... again the theme that appearances can be deceiving and that beauty is not skin-deep. .... Many of the images in the animated film are for comic effect to lessen the .... (1697 7 )

Historical Events of the Film Amistad .... Blackman with the white blood in his skin hates the .... respect to this period in history and film would be .... These pioneers shared deep bonds with each other and .... (3075 12 )

Blondes in American Society .... to the point that it was actually recreated and imported back into the States in the form of such cultural film star images .... "PT Stats: Skin Deep - Our National .... (2806 11 )

INDUSTRY ARTICLES .... 15, 1999). Is P&G's makeover only skin deep? Business Week, 3655, 52-53. .... Pet food packaging is big business worldwide. Paper, Film & Foil Converter, 76(6), 18. .... (1809 7 )

Imaging Techniques .... Skin blood flow is under sympathetic nervous system control .... light, and rhodamine, which emits a deep red fluorescence .... are used to create images on film (X-rays .... (3182 13 )

Category: Film - S