African-American Studies
HARDWOOD DREAMSAfrican-American Studies Education Psychology & Psychiatry Sociology Urban Studies Children & Young Adult
Chronicles one season in the life of the Morningside High School basketball team, the
defending California state champs, whose school is situated in a crime-ridden L.A.
neighborhood.
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UP SOUTHWorld History Women's Studies Labor Studies American Studies African-American Studies
Part of the Who Built America? series, this video tells the vivid tale of the African-American exodus from the rural South to northern industrial cities during World War I.
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DOING AS THEY CAN: slave life in the american southAmerican Studies American History African-American Studies World History Women's Studies Labor Studies
This video features a fugitive woman slave describing life, work, and day-to-day resistance to slavery on a North Carolina cotton plantation during the 1840s and 1850s.
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IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEYAfrican-American Studies American Studies American History Peace & Conflict Sociology
Examines Pulaski, Tennessee, the town where the Ku Klux Klan was founded
right after the Civil War, and where today its memory still runs very deep.
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SOWETO TO BERKELEYAfrican-American Studies American History American Studies African Studies Peace & Conflict Political Science Sociology
Examines the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the University of California at Berkeley
during 1985-86, which led to similar student protests nationwide.
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CIMARRONESAfrican-American Studies African Studies Latin-American Studies Sociology Spanish Language
This docudrama explores the little known situation of African slaves in Latin America in
the 19th century, depicting life in runaway slave communities.
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NO VIETNAMESE EVER CALLED ME NIGGERAfrican-American Studies New York City
Filmed at the Harlem Fall Mobilization March in 1967, this video lets people in the
streets, as well as black Vietnam vets, speak out about social protest, life in New York's
black ghetto, and the connection between racism and war.
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MINOR ALTERCATION, AAfrican-American Studies American Studies Sociology Directed by Women
Dramatizes a real-life incident involving a fight between two high school girls--one white,
one black-and then traces in parallel fashion the response of the two families to the
incident, revealing the real feelings underlying racial tensions as well as the existence of
common interests.
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PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPIAfrican-American Studies American Studies Sociology
A contemporary portrait of the small southern town where, in June 1964, three young
civil rights workers were murdered for registering blacks to vote. In the thirty years since,
Philadelphia, Mississippi has retained its infamous reputation as a racist backwater.
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GANDY DANCERSAfrican-American Studies American Studies Labor Studies Music Sociology Directed by Women
Features the musical traditions and verbal recollections of eight retired African-American
railroad track laborers, whose occupational folk songs were once heard along the railroad
lines that crisscross the South.
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FACING THE FACADEAfrican-American Studies Education
Examines the experience of black students on predominantly white college campuses and
how they cope with feelings of alienation, frustration, and discrimination.
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STEPPIN'African-American Studies Dance Latin-American Studies Performing Arts Political Science Sociology Children & Young Adult
Introduces viewers to the step show, an exciting dance style popular among black
fraternities and sororities. In addition to many rousing, crowd-pleasing
performances, the program examines the cultural roots of steppin' in African dancing,
military marching and hip-hop music, and discusses its contemporary social significance
on college campuses.
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