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The Color of Unworthiness: understanding blacks in France and the French visual media through Laurent Cantet's The Class (2008)
- Transition
- Indiana University Press
- Issue 102, 2009
- pp. 158-171
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
The French visual media, like Western media in general, have often shied away from people of color. The Class, a 2008 documentary film directed by Laurent Cantet and based upon François Bégaudau's book, relays the experience of a white French teacher in a multiracial lycée. Abdoulaye Gueye asks what the fanfare generated by this widely viewed film, winner of the coveted Palme d'or at Cannes, really reveals.
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