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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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OH FREEDOM AFTER WHILE
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 1999 |
| The story of the 1939 Missouri sharecroppers strike reveals the complex issues of cotton farming in the early 1930s and what it was like to be a sharecropper in that time. MORE... |
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ONE DROP RULE
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 45 minutes, 2001 |
| Exploring a recurring and divisive issue in African American communities - skin color, this film is candid, sometimes painful, but also often funny. It inter-cuts intimate interviews with darker skinned African Americans, lighter skinned African Americans and inter-racial children of Black and white parents. MORE... |
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A QUESTION OF COLOR
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 1993 |
| Colorism, a caste system based on skin color within the Black community, is traced and discussed. MORE... |
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RACE - THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 3 episodes - 56 minutes each, 2003, 
Facilitator Guide Available |
| 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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RACE AGAINST PRIME TIME
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 58 minutes, 1985 |
| This classic case study in media bias examines how the three network affiliates covered urban unrest in Miami's predominantly African American Liberty Hill neighborhood, following the 1980 acquittal of police officers for the killing of a local resident; how it framed the uprising as "riots," chose the community's "spokespersons" and focused on the inconvenience to white commuters. MORE... |
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RALPH BUNCHE: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 117 minutes, 2001 |
| Ralph Bunche was a statesman, peace negotiator, and the first person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Bunche overcame racial prejudice and poverty in America to become Undersecretary General of the United Nations. MORE... |
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RALPH ELLISON: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 87 minutes, 2002,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| An introduction to the complex author of Invisible Man including the first-ever dramatized scenes from that book. MORE... |
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REVOLUTION '67
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 90 minute version and 83 minute PBS version on one DVD, 2007, closed caption (PBS version only)
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| An illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history - the Black urban rebellions of the 1960's. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J. outbreak on July 12, 1967, the film reveals how the disturbance began as spontaneous revolts against poverty and police brutality and ended as fateful milestones in America's struggles over race and economic justice. MORE... |
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RICHARD WRIGHT - BLACK BOY
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 86 minutes, 1994,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| A biography of Richard Wright, author of Black Boy and Native Son, from his impoverished childhood, involvement in left-wing politics and literary relationships, to his exile and death in Paris. MORE... |
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THE ROAD TO BROWN
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 1990 |
| The history of segregation sanctioned by the 1898 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, and the visionary legal campaign against it that led to the triumph of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. MORE... |
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