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  1. Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier (1997)

    aka: Race: The Floating Signifier

    Director
    Sut Jhally
    Producer
    Sut Jhally
    Subject
    Philosophy; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 62 minutes), $195.00

    Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in people’s appearances come to be mistaken for essential...

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  2. Caste in Half (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (+p&p +VAT)

    Explores the effects of denial in the children of mixed cultures. Children talk about culture, colour, race. The film was made by five women of different cultures.

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  3. Three Blind Mice: Rethinking New Ethnicities (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1998 sale: £10.00 (inclusive)

    In a public lecture Stuart Hall surveys current debates on ethnicity, race, and the cultural politics of black struggle in Britain. Using historical and contemporary examples, personal reminiscence and...

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  4. Material Witness: Race, Identity and the Politics of Gangsta Rap (199 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL available). col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £35.00 (inc VAT +p&p)

    In a lecture Professor Michael Eric Dyson blends critical theory with an appreciation of popular culture, rap lyrics with classical poetry, and anecdotes of personal history with sweeping geopolitical...

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  5. Coffee-Coloured Children (1988)

    Producer
    Ngozi Onwurah; Simon K Onwurah
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 16 min), £4.00

    An autobiographical account of the film-maker’s experiences of growing up as a child of mixed race. Born in Newcastle to an English mother and a subsequent absent father in an area where there were no...

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  6. Being White (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Psychology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Few white people whatever their cultural background describe themselves as being white, but take for granted both their skin colour and the advantages it brings in a society which has defined ‘normal’ as...

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  7. Handsworth Songs (1986)

    Director
    John Akomfrah
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, DVD (PAL, 59 minutes), £120.00

    A film essay on the concepts of race and civil disorder in contemporary Britain. Filmed in Handsworth and London during the riots of 1985 and using extensive archive footage, the film attempts to examines...

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  8. Struggles for Black Community (1984)

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 38 minutes), £23.00

    A record of the unity and continuity of the Black struggle in Britain. These films record the unity and continuity of black struggle in Britain and the richness and variety of black resistance. In the...

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  9. Black Joy (1977)

    Director
    Anthony Simmons
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (95 minutes), £15.99

    Based on Jamal Ali’s stage play Dark Days and Light Nights, this film, which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at Cannes in 1977, tells the story of a naïve Guyanese immigrant who learns the hard...

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  10. Hole in Babylon, A (1975)

    Director
    Horace Ové
    Subject
    Television studies

    Television drama originally broadcast in the BBC’s Play for Today slot in 1975. Horace Ové's controversial drama isabout the Spaghetti House siege of 1975, in which a bungled robbery at a Knightsbridge...

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