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White and Black Dolls: Kiri Davis’s “A Girl Like Me”

February 7th, 2007 By Christopher Allen

I just watched this short doc, which apparently was developed as a project for a high school class and was directed by a 17 year old. A seven minute cut won the diversity award at the Sixth Annual Media that Matters Festival. The most compelling footage by far is the restaging of an experiment from Brown vs. Board of Education. As a lover of psychological experiments, I’m attracted to such documents created by attempted empirical research… the more formal and dubious the better. The link to the newscast below actually shows a wider sample of shots from the experiment, which, though unscientific, seems to prove the original hypothesis true yet again. I don’t think I’ve ever been so depressed watching video of cute little kids.

KOMO-TV NEWSCAST

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One Response to “White and Black Dolls: Kiri Davis’s “A Girl Like Me””

  1. kistov Says:

    length of typical adult romantic relationship

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