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DVDThe Color of Fear Part 1 & 2 "The Color of Fear" is an award-winning documentary about eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino and African descent, who spend a weekend together talking about racism. Out of their confrontations and struggles to understand each other emerges a dialogue that most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lives.Killing Us Softly 3Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning "Killing Us Softly" films have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years. With wit and warmth, Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and TV commercials to critique advertising's image of women. By fostering creative and productive dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in a new way that moves and empowers them to take action.Many StepsThe origin and evolution of African American collegiate stepping energetic and informative documentary. Stepping is a popular communal art form in which teams of young dancers compete, using improvisation, call and response complex meters, propulsive rhythms and a percussive attack. Stepping dates back to the early 20th century, when Black veterans of World War I enrolled in colleges. Inspired by their military training, they brought to their dances a highly rigorous, drill-like component and combined it with elements from other Black dances, just as today's steppers often add hip-hop movements. Spike Lee's 1988 film, "School Daze," brought stepping to a wider audience. Scholarly commentary from a wide-range of disciplines points to a high degree of cultural retention in the dances. This commentary, interwoven with lively and exciting stepping performance footage, provides a historical and cultural context for this creative and affirming phenomenon sweeping college campuses.Hip-hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes" provides a riveting examination of representations of manhood in hip-hop culture. This film was directed by Byron Hurt, a former college quarterback, gender violence prevention educator and longtime hip-hop fan.Color Adjustment Marlon Riggs' landmark study of prejudice and perception begun in "Ethnic Notions" into the television age and looks at over forty years of race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment. The Road to Brown"The Road to Brown" tells the story of the brilliant legal campaign that led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954, outlawing segregation in American public schools. It is also a moving and long overdue tribute to a visionary but little known Black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, also known as, “The man who killed Jim Crow.”Black is…Black Ain’t"Black is…Black Ain’t" weaves together the testimonies of those whose complexion, class, gender, speech or sexuality has made them feel “too Black” or “not Black enough.” Scholars and artists including Bill T. Jones, Essex Hemphill, Angela Davis and Bell Hooks, as well as other African Americans, movingly recall their own struggles to create a more inclusive definition of “Blackness.” Riggs own deeply personal quest for meaning and self-affirmation as his health deteriorates serves to tie the film together. Tulia Texas"Tulia Texas" through its scrupulous investigation of a landmark case convincingly shows how the “War on Drugs” has become a war on due process, waged against African Americans. Brick by Brick"Brick by Brick" shows that segregation has been as virulent and persistent in the North as in the South and that it too has resulted from deliberate public policies based in deep-rooted racial prejudice. The film uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York during the1980's to show the "massive resistance" the Civil Rights Movement confronted when it moved north. Brick by Brick is not only a brilliant legal history of one of the most important cases in civil rights law, it narrates through the passionate experiences of Yonkers residents on both sides of the issue. The film demonstrates how courageous citizens and dedicated lawyers can enforce the constitutional rights of African Americans in the face of dangerous demagogues fomenting racial hatred.Senior: Four Years in RetrospectFor most students, college is a time of dizzying personal change. Students often find it both exhilarating and confusing. "Senior: Four Years in Retrospect" helps undergraduates take advantage of these invaluable years of questioning and growth. The producers of "Frosh," a widely acclaimed chronicle of student life in a racially diverse residence hall, returned to Stanford three years later to see how college life had changed five of these students. Made In ChinaTells one of the millions of stories of migrants from rural China who comprise the backbone of the Chinese economic miracle. It provides a human face behind the ubiquitous label “Made in China.” This massive dislocation of people may well represent the largest, most rapid migration in human history. The film demonstrates how one generation of Chinese is experiencing the culture shock of an Industrial Revolution which took centuries in the West. It is inevitably both an elegy for a lost way of life and a grassroots view of what could become the most powerful economic power on earth. In Conversation: Tim Wise & Eva Paterson On February 19, 2009 in Oakland, Calif., Civil Rights leader Eva Paterson, President of the Equal Justice Society and executive producer of the forthcoming film “Presidential Race” and anti-racism activist and writer Tim Wise, author of the book "Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama," came together in an historic conversation that examined how President Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the dialogue on race to new levels. Frost Join a diverse group of freshmen living in Stanford’s co-ed, multicultural residence hall for their first-year experience. Filmed by two award-wining filmmakers "Frost" includes 2:00 a.m. bull sessions, classes, the insides of a co-ed bathroom and trips home for holiday breaks. Viewers get an unprecedented look inside today’s freshmen world. These freshmen face age-old student problems such as alcohol, drugs, dating, grade anxiety, and work overload. But they also confront new issues like multiculturalism, “hate speech” codes and gender confusion. I AM A MAN: Black Masculinity in America?In this fascinating, award-wining documentary, former Northeastern University quarterback, Byron Hurt, explores what it means to be a black man in America. In "I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America," Hurt confronts issues of race and racism, through the lens of gender, probing deep within traditional American ideals of manhood in order to draw out the complex and often ambivalent nature of black male identity.Linking the insights of African-American men and women from variety of socioeconomic backgrounds with commentary from some of black American’s most prominent scholars, social critics and authors, the documentary delivers an engaging, nuanced and ultimately uplifting take on the relationship between race and masculinity in America. Made In L.A."Made in L.A." traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the front lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. Through a groundbreaking law suit and consumer boycott, they fight to establish an important legal and moral precedent, holding an American retailer liable for the labor conditions under which its products are manufactured. But more than this, the film provides an insider's view into both the struggles of recent immigrants and the organizing process itself: the enthusiasm, discouragement, hard-won victories and ultimate self-empowerment.VHSTalking About Race – Part 1"The Talking About Race" videos contain excerpts from "Skin Deep" and are designed to facilitate much needed discussion about issues of race and ethnicity by showing us real students talking about real issues. Talking About Race – Part 2The concepts of “political correctness” and ‘reverse discrimination” have built barriers between our students and have discouraged young people from listening to and learning from one another. The "Talking About Race" videos break through those barriers and lead students to open, honest dialogue. Material Witness: Race, Identity and the Politics of Gangsta RapIn this scintillating 42 minute lecture, Michael Dyson, Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina, combines critical theory with an appreciation of popular culture, rap lyrics with classical poetry, and anecdotes of personal history with a sweeping geo-political analysis. As literary critic Houston Backer remarks, Dyson is able to move “from hip- pop to Heidegger without missing a beat.” Fusing a style of Baptist preaching with the accessibility and sophistication of an outstanding college teacher and media-savvy communicator, he leads us on a breathless intellectual journey that helps us think in new ways about issues of identify and representation. America and the Holocaust: Deceit & Indifference This film paints a troubling picture of the United States during a period beset by anti-Semitism and a government that, due to complex social and political factors, not only delayed action but suppressed information and blocked efforts that could have resulted in the rescue of hundreds of thousands of people.A Conversation with Brian McNaught: On Being GayThis film catches award-winning author and educator Brian McNaught at home, at the lectern, and at peace with himself as he talks with enthusiasm and authority about the fallacies, the facts, and most importantly, the feelings of being gay in a straight world. Harlem Diary: Nine Voice of Resilience Nine kids, a thousand dreams. Here in an intimate portrait of life in Harlem, nine personal stories of dignity, laughter and pride amidst a forgotten and frightening world. Renowned author and socio-ethnographer, Terry Williams, provided Harlem youths with notebooks and video cameras to tell the true story of their lives. Hardworking students, single mothers, young offenders and hip-hop dreamers—they’re all part of "Harlem Diary". Straight to your heart, straight from the 'hood,' these youths reveal a world unknown to most Americans—yet only a subway ride away. Campus Diversity, Students Voices"Campus Diversity, Students Voices" considers what diversity means for students at the University of Michigan. This documentary provokes thoughtful and informed discussion of sensitive issues by examining the range of student experience at a public university that promotes the benefits of a diverse student population. Across Culture "Across Culture" is a creative film that shows students how multiculturalism influences writing. Issues such as multiculturalism and diversity have quickly become some of the most important topics in education today. But what do these terms really mean…and how do they affect the way we read, write and think about the world? ................
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