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You’re like the strangers. ” Larkin posits the child’s growing cultural and political consciousness—a specifically Pan-African consciousness—as the solution to the damage perpetuated by generations of increasing alienation from an African heritage. The film is both confrontational to those who might not share these affinities as well as optimistic about the future for children with Tovi’s 26 | Introduction perspective. As a child, Tovi represents the fantasy of a blank slate, the untaught mind, who because of age or lack of experience can erase all previous assumptions, permitting the inscription of a new, revolutionary consciousness.
Makarah’s project was on her classmate, Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin (1989). Makarah shot on video, a medium she and other students began exploring in the 1980s, connecting them with women’s videomaking taking place across the country. Barbara McCullough was born in New Orleans and moved to Los Angeles when she was eleven. Because her father was a blind veteran, scholarship opportunities enabled her to attend private school. A. A. 37 Carroll Parrott Blue, from Houston, received her undergraduate degree from Boston University and moved to Los Angeles in May 1965, where she began doing photography.
9 This committee came to be known as the Media Urban Crisis Committee (MUCC). Various UCLA faculty and administrators had been developing strategies to address inequalities in higher education at least since the early 1960s, creating programs to cultivate talented minority high school students and help them succeed at UCLA. After the conflagrations in Watts in summer 1965, there was a sense of increased urgency to bring the resources of the university 8 | Introduction to bear on what was happening in the ethnic neighborhoods of Los Angeles, to better fulfill its mandate to serve the city’s population with equity and as an engaged citizen.