Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that today, at 7pm, Cornell Cinema is showing for free the French documentary Mariannes Noires, directed by Mame-Fatou Niang and Kaytie Nielsen.
“Marianne” is the name of the allegoric woman representing France, on stamps for example. As you can imagine, because of institutionalized racism, Marianne has always been White…
And “Noires” is the French word for “Black”, here in feminine plural (because French is so a gendered language).
So in this documentary, French Black Women try to define their place in this country which still doesn’t acknowledge the impact of colonization, the existence of neocolonialism, or systemic racism, and for which “intersectionality” is almost unknown.
I haven’t seen it alreeady, but I heard a lot of good things about it, and I’m going to see it tonight with students of the French class I teach this semester 🙂
Hope to see you there, if you’re free and interested !
Best, Alex
Many thanks for sharing, Alex! Maybe if it’s relevant you can share a bit about it in class.
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