One drop rule / Elixir Productions Inc. ; writer/producer/director, James Banks.

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2001.

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One Drop Rule explores a recurring and divisive issue in African American communities - skin color. Candid, sometimes painful, but also often funny, it picks up where California Newsreel's earlier release A Question of Color leaves off. The film inter-cuts intimate interviews with darker skinned African Americans, lighter skinned African Americans and inter-racial children of Black and white parents. In the process it investigates color consciousness, a sensitive topic within the Black community, with great tact and a clear commitment to healing divisions.

ASP-AVON OCLC KB.

Images / Online / Video & Film

English

November 15, 2019

Introduction: One Drop Rule (5:04); Shades of Black (4:13); The Dark & the Light of It (4:27); Are You Black? (4:21); Black Culture (7:32); Dating (6:22); What About Kids? (7:30); The Mating Game (3:10); Media Influence (4:37); Credits: One Drop Rule (1:26);