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I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope

"Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope"

In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured. A people who in 1994, embraced the concept of Desmond Tutu's all encompassing 'rainbow nation', but soon thereafter realized that freedom, privilege, economic growth and equality would not include them. A people who for more than 350 years has been disregarded, ignored, belittled, and stripped of anything they can call their own enduring a complex psychological oppression and identity crisis unparalleled in South African history.

Top Cast

  • Michael Adams

    Michael Adams

    Self

  • Sabrina Adams

    Sabrina Adams

    Self

  • James Bergmann

    James Bergmann

    Self

  • Desire Diedericks

    Desire Diedericks

    Self

  • William 'Wheels' Diedericks

    William 'Wheels' Diedericks

    Self

  • Kiersten Chace

    Kiersten Chace

    Narrator

Overview

In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured. A people who in 1994, embraced the concept of Desmond Tutu's all encompassing 'rainbow nation', but soon thereafter realized that freedom, privilege, economic growth and equality would not include them. A people who for more than 350 years has been disregarded, ignored, belittled, and stripped of anything they can call their own enduring a complex psychological oppression and identity crisis unparalleled in South African history.

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