"A Matter for Us," Post-Colonial Nations and Color Lines March 2, 2003 Midnights Children Festival Events Patricia Williams, Gauri Viswanathan, Manning Marable Moderated by Leonard Lopate JUMP TO: (0:00) Intro of Segment and Leonard Lopate, moderator. (0:27) Lopate Introduces topic and panel (2:25) Should we consider American Racial Politics as a legacy of Colonialism? (5:05) Is our situation different from what you might find in other places where there was slavery? (6:47) Are people judged by the darkness of their skin in India? (9:45) Do "the untouchables" in India take themselves out of the caste system by becoming Christian? (11:01) Impact of faith on Integration/Segregation of American slaves from disparate origins (16:13) How much of a role does skin shade play in one's sense of cultural and collective identity? (21:07) If everyone were the same color, would we still need to find other ways to identify "the other" (23:41) Aren't most Hero's and Heroines in Baliwood films light skinned? (25:31) For people coming out of the colonial experience, didn't it come down to the best dark-skinned people could hope for was to be almost the same but not white? (27:30) Color has become a verbal weapon and not just visual. (32:25) Would mixed-race children of colonialism always be considered something lesser because of the colonial connection? (36:10) Which is preferable, rejecting the colonial things that have been imposed on you or excelling at them to the point of defeating ...
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