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AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES

The quintessential video collection on African American life, history, literature and culture.

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Cultural and Social Anthropology
Big Mama: the struggles of an elderly grandmother to raise her orphaned grandson
Black Is...Black Ain't: What is black? Too black? Not black enough?
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
Family Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
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.
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.
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning: The travels of Gatemouth Moore
Skin Deep: Interracial conflict and community on campus

(See also our Library of African Cinema collection and Le bouillon d'Awara)

Cultural Theory
Aimé Césaire: Une voix pour l'histoire (A Voice for History)
Black Is...Black Ain't: What is black? Too black? Not black enough?
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask: The life and work of the post-colonial theorist
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.

(See also Rouch in Reverse)

Ethnography
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Family Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration

(See also Le Bouillon d'Awara and Rouch in Reverse)

Ethnomusicology
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.
The Music District: Washington's own music!
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning: The travels of Gatemouth Moore
Strange Fruit: dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written.
We Shall Overcome: The song that moved a nation
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The music, the women, the legacy

(See also our Library of African Cinema Music and Popular Culture titles)

 

Folklore and Mythology
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Family Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.
The Music District: Washington's own music!
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property: The significance of Nat Turner's revolt, how fictions and history collide.
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The music, the women, the legacy

(See also our Library of African Cinema People, Folklore and Myth titles)

Methods
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.

Race Relations
Black Is...Black Ain't: What is black? Too black? Not black enough?
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the racial divide
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property: The significance of Nat Turner's revolt, how fictions and history collide.
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
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.
Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty
Skin Deep: Interracial conflict and community on campus
Trouble Behind: Racism up close and personal

Social Organizations and Kinship
Big Mama: the struggles of an elderly grandmother to raise her orphaned grandson
Family Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
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.
Miles of Smiles/Years of Struggle: The story of the Pullman Porters
The Politics of Love in Black and White: Interracial dating on campus
Skin Deep: Interracial conflict and community on campus

(See also our Library of African Cinema collection)