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

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

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 9, 2009

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary, History

Original Title

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

Production Companies

Monde World Films

Director

Kiersten Chace

Description

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.