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If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them

• 1970 ----- b & w ----- 58 min ----- 16mm
• A complex morality play, set in a cemetary in which a young man branded "black" or inferior is systematically humiliated and destroyed by a variety of characters who symbolize established social institutions and groups. Portrays interaction and bigotry, hypocrisy, self-interest, fear and indifference in motivating the cruelty and inhumanity performed in the name of the good at the expense of the weak.
• Topics: (Discrimination, Psychology: Social)

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