Social Science Research Council Research AMP Mediawell

Project Type: Film

  • A film about one Somali youth’s search for belonging under the surveillance of the FBI Barkhad Abdi is most widely known for his portrayal of a Somali pirate in the 2013 film Captain Phillips by Paul Greengrass. Unfortunately, Captain Phillips continues a long cinematic history of movies that frame Black people from the developing world…

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