anthropology

Nikolai Ursin – Behind Every Good Man (short), 

1967 Joe Saltzman – Black on Black, 1968. Marlon Riggs, Affirmation (short) 

1991. Marlon Riggs, Black Is…Black Ain’t, 

1994. The American Music Show

 How do these filmmakers use the various ethnographic techniques we have discussed to weave the story of race and blackness in the US? What does the role of positionality (who is telling the story and what their identity is) contribute to our ongoing discussion of voice in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking?

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