Underplayed Gems

Whiteness Project (2014)

Whiteness Project poster
Directed by
Whitney Dow
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
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How it feels

This documentary interviews white Americans about how they see their own race and identity. The subjects share their personal experiences and views on being white in the United States.

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What happens

Whiteness Project: Inside the White/Caucasian Box is a 2014 interactive documentary investigating how Americans who identify as “white” experience their ethnicity. Created by documentary filmmaker Whitney Dow and produced in association with American Documentary | POV, the project plans to conduct 1,000 interviews with white people from all socioeconomic backgrounds and localities in which they are questioned about “their relationship to, and their understanding of their own whiteness.” "Whiteness Project: Inside the White/Caucasian Box" is the first installment of a proposed larger project. It is a collection of 21 interviews filmed in Buffalo, NY in July 2014. A statistic at the end of each interview introduces verified information that reveals how participants’ perception lines up with relevant demographic information, research and data. The latest installment, "Intersection of I", is a collection of 23 interviews filmed in Dallas, Texas in July 2015 and released in April 2016. This second installment features a cross-section of Millennials ages 15–27, who share their views about race and identity. Intersection of I was an installation at the Tribeca 2016 Festival Hub Archived 2017-02-22 at the Wayback Machine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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