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Until September 2012, DVDs from our African American Perspectives collection are available for up to 75% OFF their list prices Colleges, Universities and Government Agencies can buy 10 or more titles for ONLY $49.95* each. High schools, public libraries, HBCUs and Qualifying Community Organization can purchase titles for $24.95* each. Choose from over 50 documentaries spanning centuries of African American history, literature and culture and titles addressing racial justice themes
*The following titles are exempt from these special offers: Freedom on My Mind, Have You Heard from Johannesburg?, No!, Skin Deep, and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices. |
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| From Slavery to Jim Crow |
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BANISHED
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DVD and Educational Streaming, 84 minutes, 2007,  |
| From 1860 to 1920 hundreds of US counties expelled all of their African American inhabitants. Banished visits three of these still all white towns today. Meanwhile the descendants of those displaced and disinherited seek redress. MORE... |
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ETHNIC NOTIONS
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 56 minutes, 1987 |
| Scholars shed light on the origins and consequences of anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the Antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. MORE... |
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IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE
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| DVD, 53 minutes, 1989 |
| Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. MORE... |
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THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN
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| DVD, 52 minutes, Sierre Leone / Spain, 1998, in English and Mende with English subtitles |
| Images, instrumental music, song, interviews and narrative provide clues in the search for a lost song, its history, and its argument for cultural retention between aspects of African and African-American culture. MORE... |
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NAT TURNER: A TROUBLESOME PROPERTY
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 60 minutes, 2002, |
| Over the decades, Nat Turner's slave rebellion has been represented in multiple and often conflicting ways. The film deftly weaves documentary with dramatizations of the different versions of the retelling of this watershed event. MORE... |
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RACE - THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION
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DVD and Educational Streaming, 3 episodes - 56 minutes each, 2003,
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| An eye-opening three-part series confronting our myths and misconceptions about race through the distinct lenses of science, history and social institutions. MORE... |
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THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW
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| DVD, 4 episodes - 56 minutes each, 2002, |
| Emancipation ended slavery but only to replace it an American form of apartheid, euphemistically known as Jim Crow, used to keep African Americans as second class citizens. This four-part series constitutes a major cinematic achievement covering the years between Reconstruction and Civil Rights. MORE... |
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A SON OF AFRICA
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DVD, 28 minutes, 1996
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| A reconstruction of the first influential slave narrative, the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, which helped raise the conscience of Europe and America against slavery, includes commentary by scholars explaining the wider context of the Triangular Trade. MORE... |
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TROUBLE BEHIND
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 56 minutes, 1990 |
| An exploration of Post-War racial "cleansing" and its impact on present-day all-white Corbin, Kentucky, birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Includes interviews with residents and archival material. MORE... |
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