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MAQUILAPOLIS
(City of Factories)
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 68 minutes, 2006,  English Closed Captions, In Spanish with English subtitles
Facilitator Guide Available |
| The inspiring story of women workers in Tijuana who, though laboring for poverty wages, still stand up to transnational corporations to win severance pay and to clean up toxic waste sites. MORE... |
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MONDAY'S GIRLS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 50 minutes, United Kingdom / Nigeria, 1993 |
| The conflict between modern individualism and traditional society is seen through the eyes of two young Niger Delta women involved in a five-week long women's initiation ceremony. MORE... |
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PIECES D'IDENTITES
(Pieces of Identity)
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 93 minutes, Congo / Belgium, 1998, in French with English subtitles
Facilitator Guide Available |
| The fable of an old African king and his wayward daughter is updated to present day Brussels to make provocative points about racism, tradition, class struggle, cultural identity and corruption. 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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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,
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| 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 RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 4 episodes - 56 minutes each, 2002, |
| DISCONTINUED 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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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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