VIDEOS

Videos may be viewed in the CEEEAAS clearinghouse.  Located at 1517 Gregg Street.  Call 758-4484 to schedule a viewing.

Ages and Attitudes.  (1994).  corVision Media, Inc. ABC Prime Time Live. 16 minutes

Age discrimination can be harder to pin down than race and gender bias.  Diane Sawyer examines the issues and attitudes regarding age.  Rich resources are neglected because of this often ignored aspect of our culture.

Black Is, Black Aint  (1995).  California Newsreel.  Marlon Riggs, Producer/Director.  87 minutes

The myriad definitions of "blackness" are examined in this video.  Scholars and artists share stories of how events in their own lives including effects of color, gender, sexuality and language shaped their personal definitions of what being "Black" means.  *Facilitator guide available   

Ethnic Notions (1987).  California Newsreel.  Marlon Riggs, Director.  Esther Rolle, Narrator.  58 minutes.

A history Black American stereotypes is presented.  The long-standing, negative effects of images considered passive are discussed scholars.  Who were "Uncle Tom" and "Aunt Jemimah" in the minds of those who created them and those who endured them?  *Transcript available

The Fairer Sex?  corVision Media, Inc. ABC Prime Time Live.  16 minutes

Women do not have parity in many areas of everyday life.  Prime Time Live shows subtle and not-so-subtle examples of inequities in types of jobs, salaries, and the pricing of services.

The Road to Brown (1990).   California Newsreel.  William Elwood, Producer/Director/Writer.  56 minutes.

Black attorney, Charles Houston labored quietly to set the foundation on which the Brown v. Board lawsuits were filed.  This film moves viewers through Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, as astute decisions were made as to the most effective ways to attack "separate-but-equal" legislation.  As Houston warned, "Theres a difference between law on the books and the law in action."  *Facilitator guide available.

One Drop Rule  (2001).  Elixir Productions.  James Banes, Director.  51 minutes.

Color can have significance in the African American community, too.  This film examines the color divide between light-skinned blacks and those of darker hues.  The ways in which color affects how lives are lived are presented in terms of class, dating, cultural identity and perceptions of whites.

True Colors.  (1991). corVision Media, Inc.  ABC News, Producer.  Diane Sawyer, narrator.  19 minutes.

The inequitable treatment given two professional discrimination testers, one black and one white, is documented as each tries to buy a car, rent an apartment, get assistance in getting into a locked car, and get the assistance of  department store salespersons.   

Ugly Truth.  corVision Media, Inc.  ABC 20/20.    John Stossel, narrator.  26 minutes

Being attractive is a "perk" in itself.  John Stossel examines the bias against those considered less than attractive.

Under Suspicion   (1998).  corVision Media, Inc. ABC 20/20.  15 minutes

"Shopping while Black" is a bias familiar to many black shoppers. This film follows Black shoppers as the treatment they experience differs distinctly from that given white shoppers.

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices. (1995). California Newsreel.  Louis Massiah, Producer/Director.  116 minutes

Four prominent African American writers draw parallels between the long life of Dr. William Edward Burghardt Dubois and changes occurring in American history.  Over the course of his 85 years, Du Bois was author (The Souls of Black Folk), founder of a journal (The Crisis) and a movement (Pan Africanism), and participant in the development of newly free Ghana (West Africa).