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The Color of Fear I & II
The Color of Fear 1 This ninety-minute film was made over a three-day period and depicts interactive dialogue between eight men of Asian, European, African and Latino descent. The dialogue reveals how racism has affected each participant; the pain and anguish they have endured, the fears they carry and the defense mechanisms they have used to survive. The dialogue is spontaneous and real. Each participant hopes to be understood and accepted. The film gives viewers insight into why it seems so difficult and risky to talk openly about race and the need for a safe and trusting environment in which to have this dialogue.
The Color of Fear 2: Walking Eachother Home This 55-minute sequel to The Color of Fear is about the remaining 23 hours that occurred on that incredible three-day weekend in Ukiah, California. The Color of Fear was an intense emotional confrontation about racism, whereas Walking Each Other Home explores in greater depth the intimate relationship that the eight men had with each other. In this new sequel, the European American men have added opportunities to express how they felt when the men of color were angry, why they were afraid, and what they discovered about themselves and each other as men of European descent.
Different and the Same
A series of nine, fifteen-minute video programs designed to help first to third graders and teachers discuss, understand, and counteract racism. Each segment focuses on the feelings, experiences, and concerns of children. Through the use of puppets and adults, viewers are presented positive ways of coping with prejudice. A teachers guide is also available. A tenth video is a professional development program.
Facing Difference: Living Together on Campus
A ten-minute video that stresses cultural understanding among students and targets the misconceptions, assumptions, prejudices, and racism that students express before their arrival on campus. Search for "Facing Difference" on the ADL website.
Long Night's Journey Into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth & Reconciliation
This film examines the short and long range impact of the TRC on the lives of the victims and perpetrators of the crimes of the apartheid era in South Africa. It will also explore its impact on the healing of the nation, and explore the meaning of justice, forgivenessand reconciliation.
Mai's America
A spunky Vietnamese teenager named Mai gets the chance of a lifetime - to study in the United States. Expecting Hollywood, she instead lands in rural Mississippi - from cosmopolitan Hanoi to the heart of the deep south, Mai's unforgettable journey offers an outsider's glimpse inside America.
Not In Our Town
A twenty-seven minute video that examines the issues of hate violence in America. It tells the story of how residents of Billings, Montana joined together and stood up to hate violence in their community. Not in Our Town II is a fifty-eight minute video that profiles six communities across the country that were inspired by the Billings experience to take a stand against hate crimes and acts of intolerance. Not in Our Town III continues to tell the story of communities across the country standing up to hate violence (available in year 2000). Viewing guides to aid in facilitating dialogue accompanies copies of the videos.
Real Sisters of the Diaspora
REEL SISTERS of the Diaspora Film Festival and Lecture Series' mission is to cultivate and spotlight the unique talent and struggle of women of color in the film industry. Our goal is to empower women filmmakers of African-American, Caribbean, Latina, and African descent. REEL SISTERS provides access to leading professionals through the presentation of panels and workshops on various topics from screenwriting to producing.
The Shadow of Hate
A forty-minute video that spans three centuries to depict the legacy of prejudice and intolerance in the United States. Viewers are given eyewitness accounts of these events through documentary footage and eyewitness reports from those who lived through them. Includes a 128-page illustrated text, Us and Them, and a teachers guide.
Skin Deep
A series of interviews during a weekend when a racially diverse group of college students discuss their attitudes and feelings about race.
A Small Place, Life and Debt
Jamaica - land of sea, sand and sun. And a prime example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. Using conventional and unconventional documentary techniques, this searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry while substituting sweatshops and cheap imports. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted from her book A SMALL PLACE, LIFE AND DEBT is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.
An Independent Television Service (ITVS) Co-presentation.
Stolen Ground
This forty-four minute documentary video shows how racism has affected six Asian American men and their healing responses to being devalued and not seen. They talk poignantly and sometimes angrily about the lack of positive media images of Asian Americans. This is a seldom seen reality based portrait of the so-called model minority.
Sweet Old Song
Sweet Old Song, a new film by Leah Mahan, is the story of Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong and Barbara Ward's courtship and marriage a unique partnership that has inspired an outpouring of art and music. This creative work draws on nearly a century of African American experience, beginning with Armstrong's vivid stories and paintings of his childhood in a segregated town in Tennessee.
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
A film adaptation of the play by Anna Deavere Smith that revisits the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King trial.The event is explored in interviews from the perspective of various community members. From these interviews, Ms. Smith creates and portrays forty various characters through a series of monologues.
The Way Home
This video is a documentary that is rich with the stories of sixty-four women representing eight different ethnic and cultural councils. They tenderly and poignantly talk about oppression through the lens of race. The video is designed to raise new questions that create possibilities for transformative dialogue, learning and healing.
PBS - P.O.V. Film Archive
Television's first and Longest-Running Independent Non-fiction Series has produced 176 films
With new projects, an expanded schedule on PBS, and a renewed commitment to exploring the power of point-of-view stories about real life, P.O.V. enters its landmark 15th Anniversary season in June 2002. To mark this achievement, P.O.V. is launching three major new initiatives which further the mandate of exploring the potential of non-fiction media in civic life. These projects include the Diverse Voices Project (DVP), a co-production fund launched with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to showcase the work of emerging producers working on minority-based stories; Youth Views a youth outreach training program for peer-led facilitation using independent media; and P.O.V.šs Borders, a web-only original series showcasing interactive storytelling on PBS.org.
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Raising Nuestros Niņos: Bringing Up Latino Children in a Biracial World
by Carol Aitken
Filled with events and advice, research and recipes, this book is sure to enlighten readers about the specific opportunities and needs of Hispanic families as they become Americašs largest ethnic population.
Rodriquez believes opportunities to "recapture our heritage" must begin at home, where stories of ancestors and elders teach children their rightful place in the world. Rodriquez offers scores of ways ethnic customs and celebrations can transmit a sense of "cultural richness" to youth, including "recipes" for holiday entertaining to facilitates intergenerational and interracial dialogues. Acknowledging that Latinos have long influenced aesthetic and economic venues, Rodriquez also presents a chapter on role models from all walks of American life.
Silence At Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action
By Andrea Guerrero
In 1995, in a marked reversal of progress in the march toward racial equity, the Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action at the University of California. One year later the electorate voted to do the same across the state of California. Silence at Boalt Hall is the thirty-year story of students, faculty, and administrators struggling with the politics of race in higher education at U.C. Berkeley's prestigious law school--one of the first institutions to implement affirmative action policies and one of the first to be forced to remove them. Andrea Guerrero is a member of the last class of students admitted to Boalt Hall under the affirmative action policies. Her informed and passionate journalistic account provides an insider's view into one of the most pivotal and controversial issues of our time: racial diversity in higher education.
Guerrero relates the stories of those who benefited from affirmative action and those who suffered from its removal. She shows how the "race-blind" admission policies at Boalt have been far from race-neutral and how the voices of underrepresented minority students have largely disappeared. A hushed silence--the silence of students, faculty, and administrators unwilling and unable to discuss the difficult issues of race--now hangs over Boalt and many institutions like it, Guerrero claims. As the legal and sociopolitical battles over affirmative action continue on a number of consequential fronts, this book provides a rich and engrossing perspective on many facets of this crucial question.
On the Move: The first biography of Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Terry Bisson
Covering Mumia's childhood in the North Philly projects, a turbulent youth in Oakland and New York, a promising career in radio journalism, and a fateful sidewalk altercation that changed everything, Bissonšs colorful sketches tell the story of one of the stormiest periods in American history, and of a young rebel who came of age in its crucible.
Profiles in Justice
By David Harris
David Harris explodes the commonly accepted beliefs about race and policing in Profiles In Justice (The New Press: February 13, 2002: $24.95 cloth), his new myth-busting investigation into the practice of racial profiling. Harris proves that the "common sense" idea of racial profiling does not help fight crime; in fact, racial profiling is poor policing, often illegal, and destructive to police and their communities. Balk Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo and Soros Senior Justice Fellow, Harris shows with staggering precision why and how racial profiling cannot help us keep the peace, stem the flow of drugs into our country, or prevent future terrorist attacks.
Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the 21st Century
Edited by Herb Boyd
In Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the 21st Century, leading African-American scholars and activists discuss the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality.
This broad, inclusive anthology makes a vital contribution to our understanding of racism and how it can be overcome. Essays address issues of spirituality and activism; wisdom and cultural expression; the continuing impact of AIDS in the African-American community; race and globalization; the anti-enforcement violence movement; black feminism, the history of the reparations movement in the US; environmental justice; and the media.
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The Internet Archive: Building An 'Internet Library'
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad affords many educational opportunities. The activities presented here, especially the interactive journey, offer readers an emotional
as well as historical experience regarding slavery. The Classroom Ideas are tailored to various age groups.
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