A Touch of the Tar Brush

Name: A Touch of the Tar Brush
Director: John Akomfrah
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1991-11-12
Duration: 40 min
Cast: John Akomfrah

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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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