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African Americans, The: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $29.99

This film, presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and...

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"Freedom, Hey-Day! Hey-Day, Freedom!": African Americans and Shakespeare (2014 Audio)

aka: African Americans and Shakespeare

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 20 in series. The podcast" examines some of the many ways— including, but not limited to, performance— that black Americans have encountered, responded...

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Pioneers of African-American Cinema (1915)

Director

Oscar Micheaux; Zora Neale Hurston; Spencer Williams; James Gist; Eloyce Gist

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1309 minutes), £39.99

Collection of features and shorts featuring examples of early African-American film: the so-called ‘race films’ of 1920s, 30s and 40s America which rallied against the prejudiced conventions of the...

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Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)

Producer

Llewellyn Smith; Vincent Brown; Christine Herbes-Sommers

Subject

Anthropology; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 57 minutes), $195.00

Who has the authority to define a culture? Is there "objective" scholarship and, if so, how does it become politicised? Race and scholarship collide in a new film on Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering...

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"Our Own Voices with Our Own Tongues": Shakespeare in Black and White (2014 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare in Black and White

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 19 in series. The podcast revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a few years after the end of the Civil War to the 1940s and...

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Respond to Sound 2

Director

Adrian Younge

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £15.99

Documentary depicting the evolution of Black American street dance from 1760s to the 1960s, illustrating how Hip Hop and freestyle dancing have a longer history than most people imagine.

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Hip-Hop Dance: History and Concept (2010)

Director

Moncell Durden

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 43 minutes), £75.00 (University rate)

This documentary explores the history and scope of Hip-Hop dance. Despite its popularity, Hip Hop continues to struggle to find its definition in terms of historical lineage, concept, origins, aesthetics,...

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Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Director

Julie Dash

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £14.99

Feature film. In South Carolina’s Sea Islands at the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family of the Gullah community - former west-African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba...

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Slavery by Another Name (2012)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $19.99

This 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in...

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Documentary Archives of Multicultural America (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

A series of multimedia CD-ROMs on themes in American history. Each disk contains original photographs and documents selected from American libraries, museums and art galleries, an introductory essay, and 25...

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