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'Young Soul Rebels': The Embodiment of Black British Cinema Erasure

'Young Soul Rebels': The Embodiment of Black British Cinema Erasure

Young Soul Rebels is one of the few British films which explores Black queer narratives and its existence in the 1990s is nothing short of radical.

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Nov 23, 2020
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Young Soul Rebels, Source: BFI

by Amal Abdi

You are now reading an exclusive piece from the Film Daze Digital Magazine, Issue 5: BLM. Enjoy! - The Film Daze Team

Do The Right Thing (1989). Boyz n the Hood (1991). Straight Outta Compton (2015). All key Black films, but like so many of the fundamental films in the Black canon, they tell American stories. The…

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