American Denial: Free Film Screening and Discussion.
Sunday, May 31 - 6:30pm
Vino's Pizza-Pub-Brewery, 923 W 7th St, Little Rock
Come early and order something to eat and drink.
Follow the story of Swedish researcher Gunnar Myrdal whose landmark 1944 study, An American Dilemma, probed deep into the United States' racial psyche. The film weaves a narrative that exposes some of the potential underlying causes of racial biases still rooted in America’s systems and institutions today. Seve...
American Denial: Free Film Screening and Discussion.
Sunday, May 31 - 6:30pm
Vino's Pizza-Pub-Brewery, 923 W 7th St, Little Rock
Come early and order something to eat and drink.
Follow the story of Swedish researcher Gunnar Myrdal whose landmark 1944 study, An American Dilemma, probed deep into the United States' racial psyche. The film weaves a narrative that exposes some of the potential underlying causes of racial biases still rooted in America’s systems and institutions today. Seventy years later, are we still a society living in this state of denial, in an era marked by the election of the nation’s first black president?
American Denial sheds light on the unconscious political and moral world of modern Americans, using archival footage, newsreels, nightly news reports, and rare southern home movies from the ‘30s and ‘40s, as well as research footage, websites, and YouTube films showing psychological testing of racial attitudes. Exploring “stop-and-frisk” practices, the incarceration crisis, and racially-patterned poverty, the film features a wide array of historians, psychologists, and sociologists who offer expert insight and share their own personal, unsettling stories. The result is a unique and provocative film that challenges our assumptions about who we are and what we really believe.
http://www.americandenial.com/