Ethnic Notions

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Ethnic Notions is a 1987 video essay^[1] documentary film directed by Marlon Riggs.^[2] It examines anti-Black stereotypes that permeated popular culture from the ante-bellum period until the advent of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.^[2]