Kiri Davis
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Kiri Davis is a young, African American filmmaker based in New York City, whose first documentary, done when she was enrolled in the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking organization, A Girl Like Me (2005) has received significant coverage. When just 16 and a student at the Urban Academy, Davis became interested in Brown v. Board of Education, especially Kenneth Clark's groundbreaking study of color preferences among young, black children. She tried to repeat Clark's study and asked children to choose between one of two dolls: a light- and a dark-skinned doll. Fifteen out of the twenty-one children preferred the lighter doll when asked to chose "the nice doll".
The documentary that resulted includes, in addition to selections from her repeat study, interviews with friends who talk about the importance of color, hair quality and facial features for young black woman today in the United States.
Kiri Davis' mother, an education consultant, wanted to raise her daughter to be proud of her race and color [Edney]. At a young age, however, she learned that many prefer lighter skin color. She began to explore these issues formally as the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education drew near.
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[edit] Screenings
- The 6th Annual Media That Matters.
- HBO
[edit] Awards
- Winner of The Diversity Award at the 6th Annual Media That Matters film festival
[edit] Bibliography
- Edney, Hazel Trice. "New 'Doll Test' Produces Ugly Results", Baltimore Times, August 16, 2006. [1]
[edit] External Links
- Edney, Hazel Trice. "New 'Doll Test' Produces Ugly Results", Baltimore Times, August 16, 2006. [2]
- A Girl Like Me, Entire documentary on /mediathatmattersfest.org
- "A Girl Like Me", Media That Matters, Biography of Davis
- "A Girl Like Me", Discussion of the background of making the documentary
- "A Girl Like Me", Good Morning, America, ABC, October 11, 2006.
- "African-American Images: The New Doll Test", Talk of the Nation, NPR, October 2, 2006. [3]
