| 词条 | Kiri Davis |
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Kiri Laurelle Davis is an African-American filmmaker based in New York City. Her first documentary, A Girl Like Me (2005), made while enrolled at Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, has received significant news coverage. Kiri Davis' mother, an education consultant, raised her daughter to be proud of her race and color.[1] After completing her high school education two years after making her award-winning documentary, Davis was due to matriculate at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington DC for the fall 2007 semester.[2] When aged just 16 and a student at the Urban Academy, Davis became interested in Brown v. Board of Education, and also Kenneth and Mamie Clark's groundbreaking study of color preferences among young black children. She repeated the Clark study and asked children to choose between two dolls: a light-skinned one and a dark-skinned one. Fifteen out of the twenty-one children preferred the lighter-skinned doll when asked to pick "the nice doll." The documentary that resulted includes selections from her repeat study and interviews with friends who talk about the importance of color, hair quality, and facial features for young black women today in the United States. Screenings
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Film appearancesDavis discusses A Girl Like Me in the 2008 film The Black Candle, directed by M. K. Asante, Jr. and narrated by Maya Angelou. References1. ^New 'Doll Test' Produces Ugly Results {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061112232543/http://www.btimes.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=10180&sID=3 |date=2006-11-12 }}, August 16, 2006 Baltimore Times. 2. ^Official Web Page: Kiri Davis Biography. Accessed August 27, 2007. External links
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