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AFRICAN AMERICAN
PERSPECTIVES
The quintessential
video collection on African American life, history, literature and culture.
Please select from
the Literature and Theater courses or scroll down.
Black
Literature and Writers
Aimé Césaire: Une voix
pour l'histoire (A Voice for History)
Alex Haley: An interview with
and portrait of the author
For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker<
In Black & White: Six Portraits of
African American Authors
James
Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Richard Wright : Black Boy
(see also Keita (The Heritage of the
Griot), O Testamento Do Senhor Napumoceno
(Napumoceno's Will))
Black
Poetry
Aimé Césaire: Une voix
pour l'histoire (A Voice for History)
For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker<
Furious Flower: A Video Anthology
of African American Poetry 1960-95 (four cassettes)
Strange Fruit: dramatic story
of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest
songs ever written.
Black
Drama
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
In Black & White: (August Wilson)
(see also Africa Dreaming)
Cultural
Studies
Aimé Césaire: Une voix
pour l'histoire (A Voice for History)
Black Is...Black Ain't: What
is black? Too black? Not black enough?
Color Adjustment: Blacks in
prime time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in
white minds
James Baldwin: The Price of the
Ticket
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Richard Wright : Black Boy
Strange Fruit: dramatic
story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest
songs ever written.
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The music, the women, the legacy
We Shall Overcome: The song that
moved a nation
(see also Rouch in Reverse)
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Literature
and Theater