Frames of Reference
Volume 2 Program 2
In Plain View

The invisibility or limited representation of ethnic minorities in the arts and mass media is challenged in the works in this program.


I Turn My Head
Melanie Printup Hope
03:00   1993
I Turn My Head examines the duality in Native American identity.


All Orientals Look the Same
Valerie Soe
02:00   1986
Snapshots of individuals from all parts of Asia and the Pacific islands form a stream of images that flatly proves the fallacy of the phrase 'all Orientals look the same'. Soe challenges viewers to recognize the failure of vision that underlies this common perception.


Drylongso
Cauleen Smith
1:27:00   1998
In Cauleen Smith's coming-of-age drama Drylongso, a young woman in Oakland, California, sets about photographing what she deems, "America's most endangered species," African-American males.