ABSTRACT Historically perpetuated misrepresentations have become an institution by which institutional discourse intellectually subordinates and mythicizes the other, its people, customs, and destiny. By officially recognizing blacks as ...See moreABSTRACT Historically perpetuated misrepresentations have become an institution by which institutional discourse intellectually subordinates and mythicizes the other, its people, customs, and destiny. By officially recognizing blacks as students and affiliates, an institution attempts to see said populations as imitations of itself, although they remain abstract others bound by socially constructed paradigms of difference. We have created a documentary film that demystifies the idea that black affiliates at Yale are a cohesive community despite their institutional categorization as such. We examined the ways in which affiliates, students in particular, stylize themselves to explore the notion of "conditional citizenship" within black communities at Yale. By challenging participants to reassess their own experiences, "Still Black, At Yale" [2004] serves as a visual meditation of notions of identity and belonging within the historical racial hegemony of the institution that is Yale University.
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