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Daughters of the Dust

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Daughters of the Dust (1991)

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Reviews Counted: 8

Fresh: 7

Rotten:1

Average Rating: 7.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: 1902. In the remote Sea Islands off Georgia, where African-Americans lived and retained their traditional language and culture, a family prepares to leave and migrate north. As they celebrate this... 1902. In the remote Sea Islands off Georgia, where African-Americans lived and retained their traditional language and culture, a family prepares to leave and migrate north. As they celebrate this one last day of togetherness at a picnic, Nana Peazant, the family's matriarch who has chosen to stay behind, tells stories of their African ancestors and the arrival of slaves on the American shores. By exhorting her loved ones never to forget this past, she tries to assure their future strength -- which must always come from a respect for oneself and one's history. [More]

Starring: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Trula Hoosier, Adisa Anderson

Starring: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Trula Hoosier, Adisa Anderson, Kaycee Moore, Bahni Turpin

Director: Julie Dash

Director: Julie Dash
Composer: John Barnes

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The resources of the beautiful locations are exploited to the utmost, and [director Julie] Dash can be credited with an original, daring, and sincere conception.

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A brave and ravishing film that portrays a little-known society with deft, culturally specific images.

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With its portrayal of Black dignity, majesty and depth of character and identity, this is clearly a film of those fully in control of their own means of cultural production.

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