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  1. Doctress, The: Mary Seacole of Jamaica (2004)

    Subject
    History; Medical sciences; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 45 minutes), £15.00

    A docu-drama about the Victorian Jamaican/Scottish nurse Mary Seacole who financed her own mercy mission the the Crimea after being rejected by the British Army because of her colour.

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  2. Harlem in the Sixties (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

    Harlem was one of the flashpoints of the 1960s, a place where counter-culture, protest and opposition to entrenched political interest and repressive social structures exploded in riots and civil unrest. In...

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  3. Homebeats: Struggles for Racial Justice (1998 Multimedia)

    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Looks at racism and the black presence in Britain, using music, graphics, video, text and animation to cover the history of the struggle for racial justice, tracing the connections between slavery, the...

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  4. Education of Young Black Males in Britain, The (1995 Video)

    Director
    Geoff Small
    Producer
    David Mills
    Subject
    Education; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £16.95

    Looks at the work of Dr Spencer Holland, a black American educational psychologist, who argues that positive black male role models working in the classroom are the only way of helping low-status young black...

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  5. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995 Video)

    Director
    Isaac Julien
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 70 minutes)

    Illustrates racism in the colonial and post-colonial worlds through the life of Frantz Fanon, a black intellectual who as a French citizen enlisted in fighting the Nazi regime, but his roots in Martinique...

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  6. Darker Side of Black, The (1994 Video)

    Director
    Isaac Julien
    Subject
    Music; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. 59 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Investigates the social and political influences on the music styles rap and ragga and their hard-core proponents. Seeks an informed response to the complex issues involved, including ritualised machismo,...

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  7. New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Art
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Introduces the blend of American Indians and blacks which comprise the black Indian tribes of New Orleans as they carry out a century-old tradition of participation in the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festival....

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  8. All Black (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Colette Casey; Roy Francis; Bea Freeman; Bob Mullan; Lucy Pilkington; Niall J Sookoo
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 7 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £245.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    7 (producers Bea Freeman and Lucy Pilkington): Looks at black perceptions of the police, following the death of Joy Gardner after being restrained by police prior to deportation, and other events that...

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  9. Caribbean Women in World War II (1993 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1994 sale: £40.00

    Charts the little-known story of women’s involvement throughout the British Empire in World War 2. Four black women now living in London provide a fascinating piece of oral history, told with insight and...

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  10. Memories in Mind (1992 Video)

    Director
    Shirley Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS) (Arts Council)

    Four women from the Caribbean - a cricketer’s wife, a pianist and two young brides - recall their migration to Britain in the 1950s, an event that changed their lives irrevocably.

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