A Touch of the Tar Brush

A Touch of the Tar Brush

 

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0h 40m 1991 HD

Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. In an attempt to show Englishness from the point of view of mixed-race English people, he visits Liverpool, one of England's oldest multicultural communities.


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