White: A Memoir in Color

About The Film

In this deeply personal and emotional exploration of racial identity, director Joel Katz (Strange Fruit, 2003 AJFF) shares his family’s journey of immigration, assimilation, liberal idealism, bitter disillusionment and ultimately, reconciliation. The son of white Jewish, immigrant parents who assimilated in 1930s Brooklyn, Katz’s father becme a professor at Howard University. As a white Jew working at the nation’s preeminent African-American college during the turbulent civil rights era, he went through a range of difficult experiences and emotions. Katz himself became a professor at a predominantly non-white university, and later confronted his own racial attitudes as the adoptive parent to a mixed-race child of Irish-Italian and African-American descent. Highly engaging and thought-provoking, WHITE: A MEMOIR IN COLOR packs a powerful punch as it exposes intricate dimensions to race and prejudice in the melting pot of American society.