American Studies
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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TEA PARTY ETIQUETTEAmerican Studies American History World History Women's Studies Labor Studies
This video is based on the life of Boston shoemaker George Robert Twelves and reveals how working people helped make the American Revolution.
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THE BIG HAmerican History American Studies World History Labor Studies
This video is a film-noir spoof, private eye Clio Malarkey investigates the central role played by working Americans in U.S. history and the hazards of misinterpreting the past.
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BUILDING THE AMERICAN DREAM: LEVITTOWN, NYArchitecture American Studies Sociology
This historical documentary chronicles New York real estate developer William Levitt's postwar construction of affordable housing for returning WWII veterans and their families in Levittown and other Long Island communities, thereby establishing the prototype for modern suburbia.
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TALK TO ME: AMERICANS IN CONVERSATIONAmerican Studies Cultural Studies Sociology Directed by Women Immigration
This provocative documentary, blending interviews with archival footage, examines the
nature of shared national identity and what it means to be an American today.
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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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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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ALL GOD'S CHILDRENAfrican-American Studies American Studies LGBTQ Religion & Spirituality Sociology Directed by Women
Shows how the Black Church has embraced African-American lesbians and gay men as
dedicated members of its spiritual family.
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THE MASTER OF LIGHTAmerican Studies Physical Science Science
Examines the life and scientific career of Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931), a pioneer in
the world of physics who in 1907 became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in
Physics.
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