I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope

Story

In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured. A people who in 1994, embraced the concept of Desmond Tutu's all encompassing 'rainbow nation', but soon thereafter realized that freedom, privilege, economic growth and equality would not include them. A people who for more than 350 years has been disregarded, ignored, belittled, and stripped of anything they can call their own enduring a complex psychological oppression and identity crisis unparalleled in South African history.

«Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope»

Kurzinfos

Originaltitel

I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope

Status

Released

Start

09.02.2009

Laufzeit

52 min

Originalsprache

en

Genres

Dokumentarfilm, Historie