“ MINORITIES: WHAT’S A MINORITY? ” 1972 CORONET SOCIAL GUIDANCE FILM PREJUDICE XD45624

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1972 color educational short produced by Coronet Films uses footage of Chicago, Illinois and staged documentary-style interviews to comment on evolving attitudes about ethnic minority groups. By today’s standards, the film provides screen time to cringe-worthy, scripted racist and anti-racist perspectives, while blurring definitions of race and ethnicity (TRT:13:51). The Chinese-style architecture of the Pui Tak Center Building on Wentworth in Chicago, Illinois (0:10). The San Juan theater, aka the Biltmore, aka the Alameda, in West Town. The marquee advertises “Jaime Sanchez en La Palomilla” (1970) and “Trampa Para Un Cadáver” (1969) (0:23). Opening titles over the streets of West Town (0:35). A black man with an afro looks across a city street towards an ad for Kent Menthol cigarettes: “The Together Smoke,” which features a smiling black couple. Also, anoth