Review Of The Film 'Ethnic Notions'

What I liked about the film, Ethnic Notions is that it gave me more knowledge on my history with some of the terms that white men used to call people of color. I have heard of some of the terms from previous history courses, but not the word “brute”. I did not know what that word meant until I read the first chapter in Davis, which gave an explanation of what the term meant and where it has come from, along with the film explanations. One thing that I took away from the film was when Barbara said something like, “we demean ourselves as Blacks because now it is imbedded in our psyche. When she brought this up in the documentary I found this to be true because as an African American. I do have conversations and jokes to my friends who might have