Negro Soy: Black Voices from the Peruvian Pacific
Trailer for upcoming film by Eshe Lewis and Gabriela Rodriguez....
The legacy of slavery and has reached every corner of the Americas, and as diasporic racialized people, we went to Peru to have conversations about what racism and resistance looks like there, and how it relates to racism and resistance in Canada, our home.In a world where people tend to quantify some places as "more racist" or "less racist" than others, this film makes the resolute point that we must understand spaces as "differently" racist, but never "more" or "less" so than others. From Peru to Canada, and everywhere else for that matter, people are actively resisting racism in its many potent and diverse forms.The conversations in this film explore the role of music in black identity, how "black" means many different things to many different people, and about the unique experience of blackness in Peru. Most importantly, however, it sheds light on the universality of localized liberatory struggles against racism, and reminds us of the need for nuanced understanding and adamant resistence to racism across borders.
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