Well it's back to business after a week of sweltering 98 degree plus weather. I wanted to shed some additional light on a young lady's enlightening cinematic effort that has been getting some notoriety of late. The young lady in question, Kiri Davis(pictured above) put together a film short entitled, A Girl Like Me, which deals with how Eurocentric imagery affects the development of African-American youth, females in particular. Davis revisits the infamous "doll test" that was implemented by famed psychologist, Dr. Kenneth Clark in the 1940s. For those unfamiliar with Clark's test, it was a controlled study that dealt with identical Black and White dolls and having Black children evaluate which dolls were "bad" or "attractive". The majority of the kids invariably picked the white dolls as possessing positive attributes. Davis' test, 60 years later, leads to similar results. Take a look at the Davis' film short below as well as a synopsis of how Dr. Clark's test eventually lead to the deconstruction of America's system of segregation:
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