Not A Drop
A Black person doesn't usually say..."Hey I'm privileged!" or does a Japanese-Chinese-Canadian immigrant usually point to her university classmates and tease, "All you white chicks should feel guilty."
Rita Shelton Deverell's Not a Drop is a thought-provoking docu-drama set in a fictionalized University Diversity Journalism class and based on real events.
When students of diverse backgrounds - Japanese-Chinese (Hiromi Okuyama); Caucasian (Alexandra Pope), and Afro-Canadian (Jeremy McDonald) - claim they are already "diverse enough," their professor, a Black, former U.S. southerner (played by Stefanie Samuels) and an Aboriginal Activist (Pamela Matthews of One Dead Indian) take up the challenge and assign the class to report on the Walpole Island First Nation, located in what the locals in Windsor, Sarnia, and Detroit call "Chemical Valley."
The result is powerful, first-hand learning experience about the deeply troubling issues of disposable peoples in North America.
Languages: English and Portuguese
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