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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: Racism and Race Relations

RACISM

After ten years the court and the schools.
The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka ruling made it clear that segregation would not be tolerated and that states must comply with federal law. In this program, filmed ten years after Brown, news correspondents report on the mixed progress made toward integrating public schools in Nashville, New Rochelle, New Orleans and Prince Edward County, Virginia. Stumbling blocks such as faculty segregation, busing and segregational zoning are examined. A discussion featuring Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Georgia Governor Carl Sanders and Ex-Secretary of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins concludes the program.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E185.615 .T454 2000
All things censored Volume 1 : [16 essays].
Series of personal narratives recorded by death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Johnson Center Compact Discs
HV8699.U5 M86 1998
Black mother, black daughter.
This film is the first formal record of the history and life experiences of black women in Nova Scotia. Women from several black commumities speak candidly about their lives and the discrimination they endured.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F1035.N3 B43
Blacks respond to Murray who says whites are smarter than blacks.
Afro-Americans respond to Charles Murray's book, The bell curve.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
BF431 .B631 1996
Bringing justice home housing and homelessness.
"Highlights the stories of families in three areas of the U.S. [migrant farmers in Washington State; Chicago African-American housing discrimination; Montgomery County, MD low income families and the Housing Opportunities Council] who have grappled with the lack of affordable housing. Will inspire students and activists to act on behalf of those who have been denied what was set forth as the goal of the 1949 Housing Act -- 'a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family."
Johnson Center - Videotapes
KF5729 .B75 1999
The color of fear.
Eight North American men of different races talk together about how racism affects them.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E184.A1 W215 1997
Ethnic notions.
Presents examples of the way that racism is depicted in American culture.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E185.61 .E85
Evolution and human equality.
Using paleontology, evolutionary biology, genetics, history of science and social history as his tools, Gould tells the fascinating story of how racial differences have been misunderstood by scientists from pre-Darwinian days to the present and used to justify oppression, exploitation and persecution. He describes how new genetic research methods confirm the African origins of homo sapiens and the biological equality of the races. He concludes with a plea for students to understand the tremendous social and political power of scientific work, and scientists' responsibility to humankind.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN281 .E86
Ida B. Wells.
Chronicles the life of Ida B. Wells, an early Afro-American activist who protested lynchings, unfair treatment of Afro-American soldiers, and other examples of racism and injustice toward Afro-Americans around the turn of the century.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E161.A544 I32
Multicultural education will extremists destroy the dream?
Six distinguished panelists, who affirm the value of multicultural education, focus on the danger posed by extremists like Professor Leonard Jeffries who use Afrocentrism and other variants of multiculturalism to disseminate racial, ethnic, and religious bigotry. A resource for building bridges between groups who have been polarized by demagogues.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
LC1099.3 .M85 1992
Passing.
This film briefly illustrates how media-supported racial stereotypes highlight people's fears, as exemplified by a woman walking alone at night.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
P94.5.A37 P27 1993
A place of rage.
Prominent black women comment upon experiences of Afro-American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. Includes historical footage of civil rights movement in the 1960's.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E185.61 .P375 1991
Race and ethnicity.
Focuses on the difference between prejudice, discrimination and racism using historical and current examples. Explores the effects of prejudice and discrimination through the eyes of Asian, Hispanic and African American families.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
BF575.P9 R3 1991
Racism 101.
Frontline focuses on the racism problems at the University of Michigan campus.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E185.615 .R335
Racism in advertising.
Explores the impact of messages that rely on racial stereotypes and characterization. Presents information about the scope and size of minority markets and offers practical advice about reaching consumers.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
HT1521 .R33 1992
Racism in news.
Provides an analysis of how news content impacts a world view toward people of color.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
P94.5.M55 R33 1992
Rap, race & equality.
Some of raps most important and controversial artists speak freely about racism, economic and social inequality and race relations. Includes interviews with Ice Cube, Ice T and the band Naughty by Nature.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
ML3531 .R358 1994
The Rodney King incident race and justice in America.
Presents the unedited version of the Rodney King videotape as well as new evidence ignored by the major media at the time. All of the key participants are interviewed, including Rodney King, the police officers, the state trial prosecutor, and former L.A. Police Chief Daryl Gates. All parties offer their divergent points of view about these tumultuous events.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
HV8148.L552 R62 1998
Shattering the silences.
Explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, focusing on the experience of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at various institutions.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
South Central Los Angeles inside voices.
Discusses the Los Angeles riots of 1994 from the view of the people who lived in the areas affected. Participants of the film were given video recorders so that they could show their lives and record their feelings.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F869.L8 S665 1994
Stories of change.
Racism case study profiling four ethnically diverse women - Hispanic, Caucasian, Vietnamese and African-American - who surmount the trauma of deep personal loss and emerge with confidence, strength, and a renewed sense of purpose. These portraits explore the issues of alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, death and grieving, as well as problems faced by refugees and immigrants.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
HQ1206 .T66 1991
Strange fruit
A Black painter faces the ugliness of racism when he becomes involved in a Black voter registration drive.
Location: Johnson Center - Videotapes
Call Number: E185.92 .S7
To kill a mockingbird.
"In Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee's model for Maycomb, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is celebrated as a tribute to Southern life. This hard-edged program juxtaposes white and black experiences in the racially segregated South of the 1930s-1960s to deepen the understanding of the novel's portrayal of racial tension and tolerated judicial bias."
Johnson Center - Videotapes
PS3523.E3324 T6345 1999
Trouble behind.
Uncovers the origins of today's racism in the history of a seemingly typical American small town, Corbin, Kentucky.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E185.61 T7 1990
Twilight, Los Angeles.
"On March 3, 1991, an African-American man was brutally beaten by four white Los Angeles police officers who stopped him for speeding. On April 29, 1992, when the jury's 'not guilty' verdict dismissed the officers on trial for the assault, the city ignited into three days of rioting, looting and violence that left neighborhoods smoldering. 'Twilight: Los Angeles,' adapted from Anna Deavere Smith's searing one-woman play, captures this tumultuous and challenging moment in America's race relations."
Johnson Center - Videotapes
PN1997 .T9419 2001
The way home.
Over the course of eight months, 64 women come together to share their experiences of oppression through the lens of race. Separated into eight ethnic councils, Indigenous, African-American, Arab, Asian, European-American, Jewish, Latina, and Multiracial, the women explore their stories of identity, oppression, and resistance.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
HQ1154 .B87 1998

RACE RELATIONS

Another America.
Both the riots in Los Angeles and the murder of an uncle at his store in Detroit forced the filmmaker to start a personal investigation to examine the relationships between the Korean-American and Afro-American communities. Through his camera and many personal interviews, Cho reveals a rarely seen portrait of life in the inner city and takes a hard look at his own uncle's murder, telling how this crime affected not only his family, but the entire city.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
PN1995.9.D6 A66
Black like me.
The true story of a white writer in th early 1960's who chemically changes the color of his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the South.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E185.61 .G82 1992
Can we all get along?
Prompted by the events in Los Angeles following the Rodney King verdict,McNeil/Lehrer News Hour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault conducted a series of interviews with community leaders, journalists, politicians, educators and other experts on race relations in America. They give their views on how and why racial tensions exist and continue to grow, and what steps we need to take to maintain a positive racial climate.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E184.A1 C25
Facing the façade.
The lives and experiences of eight African-American students attending Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
LC2781 .F32 1994
Foreign talk.
Recounts the experiences of a young Chinese American woman as she encounters ethnic hostility against Asians from Afro-American men and how these feelings are resolved through communication with Afro-Americans.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E184.C5 F67 1993
The Issue is race.
This program combines a town hall format with documentary video segments to explore the policy choices facing the nation on what may be our most persistent and critical domestic problem. Activists and policymakers, Sister Souljah and Jonathan Kozol, University professors and gang members turned entrepreneurs--many of those famous for their words and deeds in race relations, join an audience of ordinary Americans who live with the issue of race. The video essays are devoted to the topice: The Cost of Failure, The Benefit of Success; The Case for Affirmative Action; The Case for Self-Reliance; and The Case for Multi-Racial Remedies.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E185.615 .I87 1992
Latin and African Americans friends or foes?
Explores the tensions and misunderstandings that exist between Latinos and Afro-Americans.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E184.S75 L352 1998
Once upon a time when we were colored.
Tells the story of growing up in the segregation-era South, in a community that faced adversity and held together with amazing dignity and grace.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson.
Mark Twain uses his insight and wit to explore the issues of slavery, mother/son relationships, justice, and the many shapes of human folly. A mulatto slave switches her disconcertingly white baby with her master's son to protect it in a time of strong racial prejudice.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
PN1997 .P88
School colors.
This in-depth documentary looks at a turbulent year at Berkeley High School in California, focusing on teachers, students, and parents struggling with the question of whether diversity will enrich American society or tear it apart.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
LC1099.3 .S34 1994
Secret daughter.
Cross tells the story of her own family through the prism of the changing face of race relations in America. Cross, born to a white mother and an African-American father in the early 1950s, was given away by her mother to live with a black family in Atlantic City when she was four. This FRONTLINE takes viewers on a journey across the racial divide and into the relationship between a daughter and the mother who gave her away.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
HQ777.9 .S43 1996
Struggle and success the African American experience in Japan.
Afro-Americans discuss conflicting views of race relations in Japan based on their personal experiences.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DS832.A47 S76 1993

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