Free, White, and 21
Free, White, and 21
”In this video, Pindell recounts a litany of racist experiences that she and her mother endured. She interrupts her narrative by wrapping her head with a gauze bandage. Pindell alternately appears as a character in whiteface and a blond wig, who undercuts the artist's testimony with disparaging remarks. 'I had faced de facto censorship issues throughout my life as part of the system of apartheid in the United States,' Pindell, who worked as MoMA's first Black woman curator during the 1970s, later recalled. 'I was bristling at the women's movement and the art world in the tape.'”