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| African American Perspectives
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| The films in this collection provide the kind of critical analysis necessary for an appreciation and understanding of African American life and history. Included in this comprehensive set of documentaries are biographies of important literary and historical figures, films on significant historical events, urgent contemporary social issues and the enduring movements for racial justice. They are well-proven and effective resources for educators, student service providers, public libraries and community organizations. Discussion guides and transcripts are available for many of these titles. |
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| All African American Perspectives Titles |
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FOR MY PEOPLE: THE LIFE AND WRITING OF MARGARET WALKER
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 28 minutes, 1998,  |
| A literary biography of a seminal figure of 20th century American literature, Margaret Walker, who established one of the first Black Studies centers in the nation, and mentored the Black Arts movement of the 1960s. MORE... |
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FURIOUS FLOWER - THE COMPLETE EDITION
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| Three-Year Site/Local Streaming - files provided and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 3 titles, 821 minutes total, 2015, Series II and III come with English subtitle files |
| A multiple volume video collection constituting fourteen hours of once-in-a-lifetime readings by and encounters with leading African American poets. It is a compilation of the historic Furious Flower I (1994), Furious Flower II (2004) and Furious Flower III (2014) conferences MORE... |
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GOIN' TO CHICAGO
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 71 minutes, 1994
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| The migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and West during and after World War II is retold through personal stories of a group of Chicagoans born in the Mississippi Delta. MORE... |
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HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 57 minutes, 2009, |
| A compelling examination of the career of Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored, The Myth of the Negro Past. MORE... |
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HOMECOMING
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 1999
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| The rural roots of African American life are explored through the Black farmer's story from Reconstruction through the agricultural crisis of the '20s and '30s and, eventually, to the system of federal farm loans and subsidies on which all farmers depend today. MORE... |
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HOMEGOINGS
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 2013, English Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired
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| Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community; borne out of their permanence, their economic stability, and the necessities of the segregation period. It film paints a portrait of the dearly departed, their grieving families and a man who sends loved ones "home." MORE... |
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HOXIE: THE FIRST STAND
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 2003, |
| Documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas. MORE... |
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HUGHES' DREAM HARLEM
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 61 minutes, 2002 |
| This cine-poetic experience celebrates the spirit and work of Harlem's poet laureate Langston Hughes. Contemporary writers, slam poets and arts supporters star. MORE... |
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IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 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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IN BLACK AND WHITE - SIX PROFILES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 6 authors, 157 minutes total, 1992 |
| An introduction to six distinguished African American writers - Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, John Wideman and August Wilson. MORE... |
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