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AFRICAN AMERICAN
PERSPECTIVES: Video list A-Z
A.
Philip Randolph - For Jobs and Freedom:
A portrait of the unsung Civil Rights hero and labor leader.
Alex Haley: An interview with and portrait
of the author
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis
sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Big
Mama: the struggles of an elderly grandmother to raise her orphaned
grandson
Black Athena: Did Ancient Greece start in Africa?
Black Is...Black Ain't: What is black?
Too black? Not black enough?
Black Panther: In their own words
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Black Theatre: The making of a movement
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the racial
divide
Blue Eyed: Diversity training with
Jane Elliot
Brother
Outsider: the Life of Bayard Rustin: The definitive film biography
of Bayard Rustin
Color
Adjustment: Blacks in prime time television
Ethnic
Notions: Black people in white minds
The Essential Blue Eyed: (Trainer's
Edition and Debriefing)
Family
Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
For My People: The Life and Writing
of Margaret Walker
Frantz Fanon: Black
Skin, White Mask: The life and work of the post-colonial theorist
Freedom on My Mind: The black freedom
struggle in Mississippi
Frosh: Student
life in the '90s
Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of
African American Poetry 1960-95 (four cassettes)
Goin'
to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming:
A History of the Black Farmer
Hughes'
Dream Harlem: esteemed poet Langston Hughes
I Shall Not Be Removed: The life of Marlon Riggs
In Black and White: Profiles of six
African American Authors (seven cassettes)
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
The
Language You Cry In: from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah
people of present-day Georgia.
Legacy:
Breaking the cycle of welfare dependency.
Many
Steps: historical and cultural context of stepping dance
Miles
of Smiles/Years of Struggle: The story of the Pullman Porters
The Music District: Washington's own
music!
Nat
Turner: A Troublesome Property: The significance of Nat Turner's
revolt, how fictions and history collide.
Nuyorican
Dream: A Puerto Rican family in the Bronx battles drugs, the prison
industry, and a host of illnesses and social obstacles on a daily basis.
Laurie Collyer's camera captures the minute details and places them
in a crucial larger political context.
Oh
Freedom After While
One Shot: the photographs of black
American life.
Out of Obscurity: A look at when
freedom was overdue at the library. Actors recreate a historic sit-in
in this documentary narrated by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond
The Politics of Love in Black and White:
Interracial dating on campus
Prime Time South Africa: Television
from the new South Africa
A
Question of Color: Healing racism's hidden wounds
Race
- The Power of an Illusion: scrutinizes the implications of looking
at race not as a biological reality but as a social invention for how
we view others - and ourselves.
Race Against
Prime Time: Constructing what's news
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Richard Wright : Black Boy
The Road to Brown: The man who killed
Jim Crow
The
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: A difinitive four part series on Jim
Crow
San
Francisco State: On Strike: The student strike that started the
Ethnic Studies movement.
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning: The
travels of Gatemouth Moore
Seniors: Four Years in Retrospect
Shattering the Silences: The Case for
Minority Faculty
Skin Deep: Interracial conflict and
community on campus
A Son of Africa: The Slave Narrative
of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African
The Strange Demise of Jim Crow
Strange Fruit: dramatic story of
America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs
ever written.
Struggles in Steel: The fight for equal
opportunity
Thirty-Minute Blue Eyed: Revised Diversity Training with Jane Elliott
Trouble
Behind: Racism up close and personal
W.E.B.
Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices
We Shall Overcome: The song that moved
a nation
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The
music, the women, the legacy
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