African-American Studies
MIDWIVES: A LIVING TRADITIONWomen's Studies Native American Studies Latino Studies African-American Studies Sociology Directed by Women
This video presents the mission and practice of American midwives, explaining the benefits and advantages of natural childbirth through interviews with midwives and childbirth educators, the testimonies of new mothers, footage and photos of actual births, and many touching stories.
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SISTERHOOD ALIVE AND WELLAfrican-American Studies Women's Studies Sociology
This video documents the Million Woman March in Philadelphia on October 25, 1997, when black women from all over America gathered to demonstrate their concerns for Black America and to express their sense of unity as a movement that can play an influential role in American society.
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PERSISTENT WOMEN ARTISTSArt History African-American Studies Asian-American Studies American Studies Cultural Studies Women's Studies Native American Studies Sociology
In this video, artist and art educator Betty LaDuke presents the lives and work of three American women artists of diverse heritages—Lois Mailou Jones, Mine Okubo, and Pablita Velarde.
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120 WOOSTER STREETArt History African-American Studies New York City Native American Studies Cultural Studies American Studies Directed by Women
This video profiles Frederick Brown, one of America’s most prolific expressionist painters, whose Soho loft studio in New York served as a gathering place for artists, musicians, writers, dancers and other creative personalities during the Sixties and Seventies.
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KAFE KUUMBA: WELCOME TO OPEN MIKESociology Performing Arts Literature Cultural Studies African-American Studies
This entertaining documentary features a variety of African-American poets from all over America, who have gathered to perform at Kafe Kuumba in Indianapolis, a local cultural center sponsored by the Midtown Writers Association.
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JOURNEY TO JUSTICESociology Criminal & Law African-American Studies
Profiles the history of blacks in Canada and pays tribute to civil rights activists who struggled to change the country's discriminatory laws. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s, the video weaves personal stories of these African-Canadians into a broader chronicle of the hardships and victories of their struggle for civil rights, one which closely parallels that of kindred spirits in the U.S. during the same period.
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HIGH ACHIEVERSChildren & Young Adult Sociology Health Education African-American Studies
Examines the training of young African Americans at the Health Professions Department at Morehouse College, the only all-black male college in America.
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PASSIN' IT ON: 25 YEARS ORGANIZING THE NORTHWEST BRONXUrban Studies Sociology New York City Latino Studies American Studies African-American Studies Directed by Women
During the Sixties and early Seventies, banks, insurance companies, the City of New
York, and many landlords drew a red-line around the Bronx and abandoned its
neighborhoods. More than 12,000 fires burned each year, 300,000 people fled, and in the
South Bronx 40% of the homes were destroyed.
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LILY DALE: MESSAGES FROM THE SPIRIT SIDE OF LIFEAfrican-American Studies American Studies Religion & Spirituality Sociology Urban Studies
An offbeat documentary portrait of Lily Dale, New York, one of America's oldest
spiritualist communities, where just about everyone is a psychic or a medium who claims
to be able to communicate with the dead. The video includes interviews with
several mediums in Lily Dale and shows them as they give private readings, perform
public healings, and take part in outdoor services where they receive messages "from the
spirit side of life."
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BLACK INDIANS: AN AMERICAN STORYAfrican-American Studies American Studies Anthropology Cultural Studies Native American Studies
This video explores the issue of racial identity among Native Americans and African
Americans, and the coalescence of these two groups in American history.
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FROM SWASTIKA TO JIM CROWSociology Jewish Studies Education American Studies American History African-American Studies Directed by Women Pacific Street Films
In the 1930s Jewish intellectuals who escaped Nazi Germany and immigrated to the U.S. faced an uncertain future. Confronted with anti-Semitism at American universities and a public distrust of foreigners, many sought refuge in an unlikely place-traditionally black colleges in the segregated South.
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THE FORGOTTEN BATTLE OF FORT PILLOW AND THE BIRTH OF THE KU KLUX KLANAfrican-American Studies American History Sociology World History
This historical documentary uses Civil War re-enactments, historical footage, photos and
contemporary interviews to explore a controversial event in American and African-
American Civil War history.
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