AFRICAN AMERICAN
PERSPECTIVES
The quintessential
video collection on African American life, history, literature and culture.
Please select from the Sociology courses on the left or scroll
down.
American
Society
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?
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the racial
divide
Blue Eyed: Diversity training with
Jane Elliot
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
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 Shot: the photographs of black
American life.
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
Struggles in Steel: The fight for equal opportunity
Trouble Behind: Racism up close and
personal
(see also our Media at Work and our Media
and Society collections)
Black
Sociology
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?
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the
racial divide
Color Adjustment: Blacks in
prime time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Legacy: Breaking the cycle of
welfare dependency
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask:
The life and work of the post-colonial theorist
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the
Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black
Farmer
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.
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning:
The travels of Gatemouth Moore
Struggles in Steel: The fight for equal opportunity
Trouble Behind: Racism up close
and personal
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four
Voices
Communities
Big Mama: the struggles of an elderly
grandmother to raise her orphaned grandson
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the racial
divide
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
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 Shot: the photographs of black
American life.
The Politics of Love in Black and White:
Interracial dating on campus
Seniors: Four Years in Retrospect
Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty
Skin Deep: Interracial conflict
and community on campus
Trouble Behind: Racism up close and
personal
Gender
Roles
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?
Blue Eyed: Diversity training with
Jane Elliot
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
I Shall Not Be Removed: The life of Marlon Riggs
James Baldwin: The Price of the
Ticket
Legacy: Breaking the cycle of welfare dependency
The Politics of Love in Black and White:
Interracial dating on campus
A Question of Color: Healing racism's hidden wounds
Seniors: Four Years in Retrospect
Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues:
The music, the women, the legacy
(See also our Library of African Cinema Women
and Gender Studies titels)
Identity
Formation
Aimé Césaire: Une voix
pour l'histoire (A Voice for History)
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?
The Black Press: Soldiers Without
Swords
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the racial
divide
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime
time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in
white minds
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask:
The life and work of the post-colonial theorist
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
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.
I Shall Not Be Removed: The life
of Marlon Riggs
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.
Seniors: Four Years in Retrospect
Skin Deep: Interracial conflict
and community on campus
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four
Voices
(See also our Library of African Cinema Colonial
and Post Colonial Identity titles)
Introduction
to Sociology
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 Is...Black Ain't: What is black? Too black? Not black enough?
Blue Eyed: Diversity training with
Jane Elliot
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
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.
Skin Deep: Interracial conflict
and community on campus
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four
Voices
Marxist
Sociology
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis
sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask:
The life and work of the post-colonial theorist
Struggles in Steel: The fight for equal opportunity
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four
Voices
(See also our Media at Work collection)
Mass
Media and Society
The Black Press: Soldiers Without
Swords
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime
time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Race Against Prime Time: Constructing
what's news
(See also our Media and Society collection)
Organizations
and Occupations
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis
sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Homecoming: A History of the Black
Farmer
Shattering the Silences: The Case
for Minority Faculty
Struggles in Steel: The fight for
equal opportunity
(See also our Media at Work collection)
Race
Relations
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis
sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Black Panther: In their own words
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 Elliot
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
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
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property:
The significance of Nat Turner's revolt, how fictions and history collide.
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.
Race Against Prime Time: Constructing
what's news
Richard Wright : Black Boy
The Road to Brown: The man who killed
Jim Crow
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.
Struggles in Steel: The fight for
equal opportunity
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
Social Movements and Change
Aimé Césaire: Une voix
pour l'histoire (A Voice for History)
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis
sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King,
Jr.
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Black Panther: In their own words
Color Adjustment: Blacks in
prime time television
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
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the
Black Migration
Oh Freedom After While: The Saga
of the 1939 Sharecroppers Strike
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
Struggles in Steel: The fight for
equal opportunity
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four
Voices
We Shall Overcome: The song that moved a nation
(see our The Sixties on video collection)
Sociology
of Culture
Black Is...Black Ain't: What is black?
Too black? Not black enough?
The Black Press: Soldiers Without
Swords
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime
time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
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.
(see also our Media and Society collection)
Social
Problems
Big Mama: the struggles of an elderly
grandmother to raise her orphaned grandson
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.
Stratification
A.Philip Randolph - For Jobs and Freedom:
A portrait of the unsung Civil Rights hero and labor leader
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
Freedom on My Mind: The black freedom struggle in Mississippi
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black
Farmer
Legacy: Breaking the cycle of welfare dependency
Miles of Smiles/Years of Struggle:
The story of the Pullman Porters
A Question of Color: Healing racism's
hidden wounds
Struggles in Steel: The fight for
equal opportunity
(see also our Media at Work collection)
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?
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask:
The life and work of the post-colonial theorist
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four
Voices
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