Veronica

Duration: 28

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Jason Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A cinema verité portrait of Veronica Glover, a black teenager who is president of her predominantly white high school in New Haven, Conn., showing her inner struggle to maintain her identity under stress. , Shows a 9-year-old Polish-Canadian girl and her family, and their bakery. Shows her as she attends Polish school twice a week to learn about her Polish heritage, learn traditional dances, and hear her native language.

Complete Record: A cinema verité portrait of Veronica Glover, a black teenager who is president of her predominantly white high school in New Haven, Conn., showing her inner struggle to maintain her identity under stress. , Focuses on Veronica Nakarewicz who lives on Queen Street in Toronto where many persons of Polish background live and goes to school with children of many other ethnic groups. Veronica is nine-years-old and helps out in her parents' bakery shop. Veronica maintains strong ties to her heritage by attending a Polish school where she learns traditional dances and her native Language . , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.