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AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
The quintissential video collection on African American life, history, literature and culture.

Cultural Identity
Videos for multicultural counseling, black identity and racial awareness from California Newsreel:

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?
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the racial divide
Blue Eyed: Diversity training with Jane Elliott
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Family Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
I Shall Not Be Removed: The life of Marlon Riggs
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.
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.
One Drop Rule: A discussion of color consciousness and critique of interracial relationships
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
A Question of Color: Healing racism's hidden wounds
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Seniors: Four Years in Retrospect
Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty
Skin Deep: Interracial conflict and community on campus
Strange Fruit: dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written
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Thirty-Minute Blue Eyed: Revised Diversity Training with Jane Elliott


(See also our Library of African Cinema collection, Aimé Césaire: une voix pour l'histoire and Rouch in Reverse)