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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...
This Gateway includes 1,700 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or...
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...
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...
The only documentary about Dr Martin Luther King Jr produced by African-Americans, it chronicles the American civil rights movemenet of the 1950s and 1960ss and examines King’s role in its events.
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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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