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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. ...Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the rugged canyon lands of Northern Arizona, Navajo and Hopi cross-country runners from two rival high schools put it all on the line for tribal pride, triumph over personal adversity, and state championship glory. Win or lose, what they learn in the course of their seasons, will have a dramatic effect on the rest of their lives...Focusing on five teens living on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, Racing the Rez unfolds over two years of careful,...
Publisher
BTG Productions
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Mention the game Mah-Jongg to a woman who plays it and something very special happens. Her eyes light up, she smiles and may laugh, and then she begins to speak. Even someone at first shy or reluctant to speak suddenly come alive with impassioned stories of her life, and of the bonds that develop between the women who meet ritually every week, sometimes more, to play, to escape, and most importantly, to be together until all hours of the night. Ask...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
I am the future of Black America. "Can't nobody steal my shine”- Tupac Shakur in his last interview, one of the many exclusive pieces of footage featured in ‘Thug Immortal”. From his early appearances on record with Digital Underground to his popular and influential solo albums, Tupac Shakur was a rap phenomenon, and one of the pioneers of gangster rap. Though often attacked by the media (and Dan Quayle) for his "thug" lifestyle, Tupac's life...
7) The Return
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing Exclusive
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Before World War Two, Poland’s 3.5 million Jews made the country the epicenter of the Jewish world. Today less than 20,000 Jews live there. Due to the Holocaust and ensuing Soviet era, Poland’s remaining Jews hid their identity from their children. With the fall of Communism in 1989 a young generation of Jews began learning their long-buried ancestry. The Return focuses on four women in their 20’s who face the unique challenge of trying to create...
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Working the Boat: Masters of the Craftis a six-part webisode hat captures the golden years of Local 1329 of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). Local 1329 was founded in Providence,.Rhode Island in 1933 by Manuel Q. Ledo, a Cape Verdean community leader. Featured in the webisode are museum-quality photographic portraits of the interviewees taken by Liane Brandon, award winning independent filmmaker and photographer.
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 1989, together with a group of female friends, Su Friedrich rented and renovated an old loft in Williamsburg, an unassuming working-class district of Brooklyn. In 2005 this former industrial zone was designated a residential area and the factories, manufacturers and artists’ lofts were priced out by property speculators lured by tax breaks. Friedrich spent five years documenting with her camera the changes in the area between East River and the...
10) Sacred Stick
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Before there was light, before there was earth, the game was played." - Oren Lyons..Sacred Stick examines the historical, cultural, and spiritual aspects of lacrosse. From the ancient Maya to the world famous Iroquois Nationals team, this program explores a uniquely Indigenous sport that, like Native peoples themselves, adapted and endured within the dominant culture. As lacrosse surges in popularity, it has now become the fastest growing sport in...
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
This a re-discovered and restored documentary shot in 1975 in Cape Verde at the time of independence by pioneering video artist Anthony D. Ramos. This was some of the earliest video work by Ramos, who received a 1975 grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities for travel to Cape Verde and a sony color 1/2" reel to reel video camera Ramos, a Cape Verdean American, traveled to the islands of Sao Tiago, Fogo and Sao Vicente, and was the only...
Publisher
Bluedot Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Three world renowned masters tell of the blood and treachery of Capoeira in its early days after slavery. A young man gets off the ghetto streets of Salvador Brazil and redeems his life by teaching Capoeira to other troubled youths. In their stories the surprising history and essential truth of Capoeira as a modern self defense art form is revealed.
Publisher
Dos Vatos
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Young Marcelo Ayala leaves his home in Mexico to join his brothers in the Kentucky Bluegrass...Thousands of Latinos seeking better possibilities have been migrating to Midwestern states like Kentucky, with jobs in the tobacco, manufacturing and horseracing industries. But as these Latino communities have swelled, so too has the xenophobia and discrimination facing them...BEYOND THE BORDER, follows the classic immigrant experience with Marcelo Ayala,...
Publisher
The Immigration Paradox Movie
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In an era of increased global mass migration what does it mean to be an American? In this conversational piece, Filmmaker Lourdes Lee Vasquez unlocks additional never before seen footage filmed during her original 7 year journey. The Immigration Paradox - Encore delves into some of the ideological and historical precedents that have led up to now. It brings to light often omitted and over looked historical facts such as the Doctrine of Discovery,...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Van Peebles will always be known as the man who not only changed the face of black cinema, but independent cinema forever, when he made his groundbreaking (and taboo breaking) film "Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song." But’s he’s always been a lot more than that, as a playwright, actor, author, stage performer, musician and who knows what else he’s done in his 80 years. And he’s likely not through yet...But how did a guy who grew up...
16) The Spirituals
Publisher
Dos Vatos
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A musical art form, the American Spiritual, was born out of the folk songs of slaves. Melodies of backbreaking work were hummed, sung, and passed on throughout the Deep South over fields of cotton, greens, cowpeas, yams, rice, peanuts, and okra. Sorrow songs were used to console and transmit secret information. With defiance, sorrow, and anger, the songs traveled, after being hummed in to the ear of the next arranger...Few of these spiritual treasure...
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
This documentary reportage chronicles the first state visit to the United States in 1983 by Aristides Pereira, Cape Verde’s first president after independence. Highlights include an overview of the Cape Verdean communities in the Fox Point section of Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode Island and President Pereira’s visit to New Bedford, MA and visit to the schooner ERNESTINA, beloved queen of the Cape Verdean packet trade.
Publisher
reFrame Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film takes us inside the world of cricket and the daily life of Montreal's Parc Extension – one of Canada’s poorest yet most vibrant immigrant neighbourhoods...Little known in French Canada (Quebec), cricket has hundreds of millions of fans worldwide. For the immigrant cricket players in Parc-Ex, cricket is a buffer, an arena in which they can find success, dignity, and community recognition as they slowly integrate into Quebec society. As...
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This short documentary was created from rare archival footage of almost seventy hours of ½"reel-to-reel video shot by pioneering performance and media artist Anthony D. Ramos. He was the only American camera present to record the historic first two days of independence in Cape Verde after 500 years of colonial rule.
Publisher
Brian Jenkins
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The bloody attacks of protestors in Selma in 1965 led to the historic protection of all Americans' right to vote. The film explores a cherished family story of Selma and the current state of voter suppression in America...Fifty one years ago, the nation watched in horror as bloody images of police attacks on civil rights protestors in Selma, Alabama aired on television. John Witeck was a sophomore at the University of Virginia when he saw the graphic...
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