Nonprint Media Services

The following are selected video titles in the collections of Nonprint Media Services that deal with race,ethnicity and diversity.

1960, Skin Deep (57 min)
HT1521.A15 1999
Summary: Combines archival film footage, interviews and first-person accounts to offer a picture of the struggle for racial equality in both the United States and South Africa.

A.K.A. Don Bonus (55 min.)
E 184.K45A4 1995
Summary: This documentary is a self-portrait of a young Cambodian immigrant growing up in San Francisco. Shot by Sokly Ny himself, it shows his struggles to graduate and deal with his complicated life during his senior year of high school.

And Still I Rise (29 min.)
HQ1587.A625 1993
Summary: Prominent black women comment on the history and experiences of the Afro-American slave woman in white European society. Focuses on the sexuality of black women as perceived by Western society, from the domesticity and servility of the slave era to the visual exploitation of stereotypes in modern media.

Anne Wortham: Another View of the Civil Rights Movement (51 min.)
E185.625.A66 1994
Summary: Sociologist Anne Wortham talks with Bill Moyers about her controversial views on the civil rights movement and affirmative action programs as they discuss race relations in America.

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (117 min.)
DS119.7.A67 1989
Summary: Explores the roots of tensions between Arabs and Jews in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Exposes prejudices, as well as images and stereotypes held by the two groups.

Are We Different? Young African Americans Talk about Cultural Difference and Race in America (28 min.)
E185.625.A73 1992
Summary: Through interviews with African-American high school and college students, examines race, racism, and race relations in the United States. The discussions range from whether stylistic differences between whites and blacks are superficial or profound, to the causes and nature of anger and frustration in the black community.

Banana Split:25 Stories by Kip Fulbeck (38 min.)
E 184.O6F8 1991
Summary: In this film Fulbeck interweaves narratives and media clips to focus on biracial ethnicity exploration and Asian self-identity. He examines the relationship between his father who is Caucasian and his mother who is Asian and also explores ethnic dating patterns and media stereotypes of Asian American men.

Be Good, My Children (47 min.)
PN1997.B356 1992
Summary: A drama about a Korean immigrant family in New York City, whose members each have very different ideas about what life should be like in their adopted homeland. Raises issues affecting many immigrant communities: racism, sexism, and representation of Asians in the media.

Beyond Black And White: Affirmative Action In America (60 min.)
HF5549.5.A34B49 2000
Summary: This debate features a panel of policy activists who represent the various sides of the affirmative action isssue. The discussion takes place using the model of a hypothetical university's admissions policies. Moderator, Charles J. Ogletree ; panelists, Ward Connerly, Angela Walker, Ruth J. Simmons, Ann Coulter, Frank D. Riggs, Ann F. Lewis, Antonia Hernandez, Suzan Shown Harjo, Diane Chin, Robert L. Woodson, Sr., Christopher Edley, Jr., Judge Jon O. Newman, John R. Strangfeld, Tamar Jacoby, Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr.

Birth of a Nation : 4x29x92 (62 min.)
F869.L86B5 1994
Summary: This documentary offers a eyewitness view of the L.A. riots which erupted within minutes of the verdict that acquitted the four police officers accused of brutally beating motorist Rodney King. With the immediacy of combat coverage and set to rap and hip hop music, the video maker follows the events on the streets at the epicenter of the rioting. Also includes various clips and interviews with rap artists, such as Ice Cube and Ice-T, and L.A. residents filmed before and after the riots.

Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic (58 min.)
E184.S75B53 1989
Summary: Examines the work of several Hispanic-American writers and how their poems, short stories, and novels reflect what it means to grow up Hispanic in the United States. Discusses influences on their writing including the oral traditions of the Hispanic community, their creative methods, and specific themes.

Black Is--Black Ain't: A Personal Journey Through Black Identity (88 min.)
E 185.625.B559 1995
Summary: In this film, Riggs meets a cross-section of African Americans grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contradictory definitions of blackness. He shows many who have felt uncomfortable and even silenced within the race because their complexion, class, sexuality, gender, or speech has rendered them "not black enough," or conversely, "too black." The film scrutinizes the identification of "blackness" with masculinity as well as sexism, patriarchy and homophobia in black America.

Black to the Promised Land (98 min.)
E185.615.B553 1991
Summary: A group of problem students from the Street Academy High School of Brooklyn are taken on a trip to Israel. They experience the everyday life of the Jewish community in a kibbutz. Both Jewish and Black youngsters seem surprised in finding that love, respect and friendship can grow in spite of ethnic differences and the color of their skin.

Blacks & Jews (85 min.)
E185.615.B5533 1997
Summary: Early in the 20th century Black and Jewish Americans joined forces against bigotry and to fight for their civil rights, but in the late 1960's each group turned inward and the coalition fell apart. This film examines the history of this collaboration and recent conflicts between Afro-Americans and Jews, and attempts at understanding and reconciliation, with particular emphasis on events in New York City and Oakland, California.

Border Brujo(52 min.)
E184.M5B67 1990
Summary: Guillermo Gomez-Pena transforms himself into 15 different personalities in order to depict the problems, frustrations, and discrimination commonly faced by Mexican-Americans.

Campus Culture Wars:Five Stories about PC (90 min.)
LA 227.4.C36 1993
Summary: Examines five controversial incidents at universities around the country involving conflicts of values and "political correctness". Cases involve the use of racially insensitive language, gay rights and religious expression, pursuit of multicultural ideals, sexual harassment in the classroom, and radical feminism.

Carved in Silence (45 min.)
JV6923.C37 1995
Summary: Chinese immigrants tell their stories of detention at Angel Island Immigration Station during the Chinese exclusion era, 1882-1943. Combines archival footage, reenactments, and poetry written by detainees.

The Color of Fear (90 min.)
HT 1521.C64 1994
Summary: Three Asian-Americans, two Mexican-Americans, two Afro-Americans, and two Anglo-Americans discuss with, and confront, each other about racial identity and how racism, prejudices, and stereotypes affect them.

Color Adjustment (88 min.)
PN1992.8.A34C65 1991
Contents: pt. 1. Color blind TV? 1948-1968 -- pt. 2. Coloring the dream, 1968-1988. Summary: Analyzes the evolution of television's earlier, unflattering portrayal of blacks from 1948 until 1988 where they are depicted as prosperous, having achieved the American dream, a portrayal that is inconsistent with reality.

Color Schemes: America's Washload in 4 Cycles (29 min.)
HT1521.C55 1989
Summary: Uses the metaphor of color wash to tackle conceptions of racial assimilation. Challenging stereotypes, twelve writer/performers collaborate on four performance sequences: soak, wash, rinse and extract. The performers try to claim racial images that remain color vivid.

The Couple in the Cage: a Guatinaui Odyssey (31 min.)
NX600.P47C68 1993
Summary: Presents color sequences of the display in various museums of performance artists portraying an aboriginal couple from Gautinau, a fictional island off the coast of Mexico. These are contrasted with archival footage and photographs showing examples of indigenous persons being put on display at circuses, sideshows, and the like. Emphasizes the response of the people viewing the Gautinaui couple.

Cultural Baggage (9 min.)
BF575.P9C84 1995
Summary: This parody of cultural stereotypes takes place at a baggage carousel at an airport. Trying to find their luggage, people pick up different bags and suddenly assume the stereotypical personality of the bag's true owner.

Degrees of Difference: Culture Matters on Campus (24 min.)
LC1099.4.W6D44 2001
Summary: Addresses the issues of cultural sensitivity as they pertain to the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Wisconsin--Madison.

A Different Place: the Intercultural Classroom (37 min.)
LC1099.3.D54 1993
Summary: A two part video presentation. The first segment presents a vignette that takes place in an International Relations class where international and American studentsbdisagree on how to disagree with each others' ideas. The professor is caught in the exchange without the cultural background necessary to deal with their conflicting views. The second segment presents a multicultural view of the classroom interaction by several experts of varied backgrounds. Educators and other professionals from different countries and disciplines explain how each student brings to the classroom the assumptions and expectations of his or her culture. This in turn, determines their reactions to the environment, the material, the lecture/discussion dynamics, the assignments, and teaching style of the professor.

Diversity Dilemmas (185 min.)
HD 4903.D59 1994 v-1-7
Contents: [v.1] Gender (28 min.) -- [v.2] Race and ethnicity (26 min.) -- [v.3] Age and experience (25 min.) -- [v.4] Physical ability (23 min.) -- [v.5] Sexual orientation (26 min.) -- [v.6] Interpersonal style (29 min.) -- [v.7] [General Diversity issues] (28 min.).
Summary: Discusses a mosaic of conflicts posed by differences in gender, race and ethnicity, age and experience, etc. at the workplace, and looks at how these conflicts can be managed skillfully.

Ethnic Notions (58 min.)
E184.A1E83
Summary: Presents how Blacks have been depicted in American culture.

Fires in the Mirror (82 min.)
PS3569.M465F56 1993b
Summary: On Aug. 19, 1991 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. a Hasidic man accidentally ran over a Black boy. Three hours later a young Jewish scholar, Yankel Rosenbaum, was murdered by Black youths. Four days of fire-bombing and riots ensued. Anna Deavere Smith acts out the roles of these 18 persons involved in the racial conflict, trying to present the differing views of this serious problem. Includes actual film footage of the riots and violence. Persons played by Smith: Robert Sherman, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rivkah Siegel, Min. Conrad Muhammad, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Angela Davis, Rev. Dr. Heron Sam, Henry K. Rice, Michael S. Miller, Richard E. Green, Norman Rosenbaum, Rabbi Joseph Spielman, Sonny Carson, Rabbi Shea Hecht, Rev. Al Sharpton, Roz Malamud, Reuven Ostrov, and Carmel Cato.

Forbidden City, U.S.A. (57 min.)
F870.C5F6 1996
Summary: Documents the Forbidden City, a San Francisco nightclub of the 1930's and 1940's which featured Chinese American entertainers. Contains film clips of acts at the Forbidden City and interviews with performers and club owner, Charlie Low, discussing the racism, stereotypes, and cultural traditions they had to struggle against.

Foreign Talk (11 min.)
HT1521.F55 1993
Summary: Presents a dialogue between a young Chinese American woman and two Afro-American men, who encounter each other on a train in San Francisco, shortly after the Rodney King/Los Angeles riots. The encounter, and the woman's subsequent contemplations, illustrate that all of the characters possess racial and ethnic stereotypes, and that these stereotypes greatly affect the way that they think and act.

Four Women (7 min.)
GV1783.F68 1990z
Summary: A dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone about four common stereotypes of Afro-American women. Originally produced in 1978.

Getting Along (24 min.)
HT 1521.G484 1992
Summary: Four men of different racial and ethnic backgrounds present their experiences with and attitudes towards racism and discrimination. Includes dramatized vignettes of childhood memories.

Hispanics in the Media (44 min.)
P94.5.H58H57 1998
Summary: Explores the current role of Hispanics in the media including interviews with Geraldo Rivera, Moctesuma Esparza, David Valdez, Rita Moreno, Elizabeth Pe-a, Jimmy Smits and Isiah Morales. Explores why Hispanic actors are still relegated to marginal roles.

Images (15 min.)
BF575.P9I63 1994
Summary: Discusses how one's perception of people from other countries, particularly those of developing countries, may be distorted by a number of factors, These factors can result in the formation of negative stereotypes and prejudices.

Imagining Indians (57 min.)
PN1995.9.I48I52 1992
Summary: Using an eclectic mix of interviews, staged scenes and graphic imagery, this film represents a Native American's view of the disparity between self-perception and the white culture's principally Hollywood-inspired interpretations of American Indians.

The KKK Boutique: Ain't Just Rednecks (60 min.)
E185.615.K567 1997
Summary: Interviews with minorities, discussing racism and racial prejudice in America, are interspersed with a satirical depiction of a friendly boutique that sells merchandise of a racist nature.

Lip (10 min.)
PN1995.9.N4L57 1999
Summary: A video collage of film footage illustrating Hollywood's primary depictions of black women as maids.

Lockin' Up (29 min.)
TT972.L63 1997
Summary: By letting her hair coil into dreadlocks, Jamaican-born filmmaker T. Nicole Atkinson challenges society's and her own conflicted notions of beauty. This film surveys the origins and cultural significance of dreadlocks, including the stereotypes which reflect the racism inherent in Western standards of beauty.

Long Night's Journey into Day (95 min.)
DT1945.L65 2000
Summary: For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid's rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed. This documentary tracks some of the 10,000 requests for amnesty that came before the TRC, which brought together victim and perpetrators.

Marketing Booze to Blacks (17 min.)
HF6161.L46M37 1990
Summary: Examines the impact of alcoholism and other alcohol-related problems in the Black community and the tendency of beer, wine and liquor companies to target African-Americans in their advertising.

Mirrors of the Heart (57 min.)
F1408.A64 1993 pt.4
Summary: Focuses on the identity, race and ethnicity in three Latin American countries, Bolivia, Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Mixed Blood (20 min.)
HQ801.8.M59 1997
Summary: Examines interracial relationships between Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans. Using a combination of interviews with concerned individuals, text, and clips from scientific films and classic miscegenation dramas, the film explores the complexities of cross-cultural intimacy and whether such choices have public and political implications.

My Father Calls Me Son: Racism & Native Americans (29 min)
E78.C15M9
Summary: Examination of the history of white oppression of the Native American from slavery to stereotyping for the movies.

My Mother Thought She was Audrey Hepburn (17 min.)
E184.C5M8 1989
Summary: A light-hearted stream-of-consciousness biographical exploration of a young Chinese-American woman's search for personal identity and her coming to terms with her ethnic heritage. Using photographs and film of her mother and interviews with Robin Jackson, Andrea Minton and Suzanne Onodera, Jue contrasts cultural stereotypes with pan-ethnic friendships.

Not in Our Town (25 min.)
E184.A1N53 1994
Summary: Documentary about the town of Billings, Montana, which joined together to stand up for Native American, Afro-American and Jewish neighbors who were under attack by white supremacists. In response to a series of hate crimes, the community acted swiftly to show its resolve not to tolerate such actions.

Orientations: Lesbian & Gay Asians (56 min.)
HQ76.3.O6O74 1990
Summary: A dozen Canadian gay men and women of different Asian backgrounds speak frankly about their lives as members of a minority within a minority. They tell about coming out, racism, cultural identity and challenge the stereotype of Asians as quiet and passive.

Passing (4 min.)
P94.5.A37P27 1993
Summary: This film briefly illustrates how media-supported racial stereotypes highlight people's fears, as exemplified by a woman walking alone at night.

Performing the Border (43 min.)
F787.P47 1999
Summary: Examines socioeconomic problems of the Mexican-American border region, focusing on hardships faced by women in newly urbanized areas. English and Spanish with English subtitles.

A Place of Rage (52 min.)
E 185.61.P65 1991
Summary: June Jordan, Angela Davis, Alice Walker and Trinh T. Minh-Ha comment upon experiences of Afro-American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. Includes historical footage of civil rights movement in the 1960's.

The Power of Diversity (75 min.)
HF 5549.5.M3P68 1993,v.1-4
Contents: Module 1. Sexual harassment and gender discrimination ; Disabilities, hiring and promotion -- Module 2. Career development, minority issues ; Career development, reverse discrimination and age-ism -- Module 3. Performance appraisal ; Balance of work/family issues -- Module 4. Sexual orientation ; Career mobility, language. Summary: Facilitates the understanding of issues surrounding the managing of diversity.

Race: the Floating Signifier (85 min.)
HT1521.R242 1996
Summary: Presents a complete lecture given by Stuart Hall, professor of Sociology at the Open University, on race and the meaning of racial signifiers, such as skin color. Hall contends that racial signifiers are not absolute, but dependent on cultural contexts and their inherent racial classifications and stereotypes. The lecture is followed by twenty minutes of Prof. Hall addressing questions posed by the audience.

Race, Class & Health (120 min.)
RA393.R33 2000
Summary: The panel discusses social problems that contribute to health disparities, how these disparities developed, why they continue and what can be done to eliminate them. The need for a paradigm shift in public health is discussed and the forces working for and against making such a shift possible is debated. Highlighted are promising community and curricular practices that are raising public awareness about our common health and supporting community activism by college and community advocates around the country

Racism 101 (58 min.)
LC2781.R33 1988
Summary: A discussion on race relations on college and university campuses in the United States during the 1980s. Focuses on the racism problems at the University of Michigan campus.

Rap, Race and Equality (50 min.)
ML3531.R25 1994
Summary: Some of rap music's most important and controversial artists speak freely about how rap music relates to racism, economic and social inequality, and race relations in America.

Richard Rodriguez Victim of Two Cultures (51 min.)
E184.S75R53 1994
Summary: Richard Rodriguez discusses growing up in America as the son of immigrants, the loss of his "Mexican soul", and his first exposure to American culture. Discussion focuses also on the differences between Mexican an American cultures, including Rodriguez' observations on America's growing sense of loss and the essence of American society today.

Sa-i-gu (41 min.)
F 869.L89K67 1993
Summary: Explores the embittering effect the Rodney King verdict and riot of April 29, 1992 had on Korean American women shopkeepers, who suffered more than half of the material losses in the conflict. Interviews, conducted three months after riots, with several Korean American women shopkeepers illustrate their experiences and feelings about the rioting and their relations with African Americans.

School Colors (41 min.)
LC3733.B5S3 1994
Summary: This documentary looks at a turbulent year at Berkeley High School in California, one of the first high schools in the United States to voluntarily integrate. Through interviews with teachers, students, and parents, this film addresses the questions of racial and ethnic diversity and relations, the tendency for students to segregate themselves, the educational track system, and the issue of minority status on college applications.

Shattering the Silences (86 min.)
LB2331.72.S5 1996
Summary: Explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, focusing on the experiences of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at various institutions.

The Shot Heard Round the World (67 min.)
KF224.P43S56 1997
Summary: An examination of the death of teenaged Japanese exchange student Yoshi Hattori, who was fatally shot by Rodney Peairs in 1992 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Includes news footage, videotape depositions, and interviews with the attorneys, family, and friends.

Sisters in the Struggle (50 min.)
F1035.N3S57 1991
Summary: Explores the diversity, vision and impetus of the contemporary Black women's movement in Canada. The film articulates the struggles of Black women resisting the cultural, economic and legislative practices which subordinate them.

Skin Deep (53 min.)
HT 1521.S534 1996
Summary: A diverse group of college students reveal their honest feelings and attitudes about race and racism. Students are interviewed alone, and then discuss the issues in a group setting.

Slaying the Dragon (58 min.)
PN1995.9.A78S53 1988
Summary: Describes racial and gender stereotyping of Asian women in U.S. motion pictures, television programs, commercials, newsreels and news broadcasts. Includes interviews with Asian historians, sociologists, actors and actresses and broadcasters.

Still Burning (38 min.)
LA 229.S63 1989 pt.1-2
Contents: pt.1. Campus administrators confront ethnoviolence (18 min.)-- pt.2. Ethnoviolence in the campus community (21 min.)
Summary: Discusses the rise in ethnic violence on college campuses and how to deal with it.

Struggles in Steel: a Story of African-American Steelworkers (56 min.)
HD8081.A65S7 1996
Summary: Interviews with more than 70 retired black steelworkers who recount their struggles with the companies, the unions, and white co-workers to break out of the black job ghetto. Traces a century of black industrial history: the use of blacks as strikebreakers against the all-white union during the 1892 Homestead Strike, the Great Migration of fieldworkers to the North in World War I, the racial divisions between workers during the Great Steel Strike of 1919, the success of the CIO organizing drives of the 1930s, and the 1974 agreement compelling the companies and the unions to set hiring and promotion goals for women and minorities.

Stuart Hall : Representation & the Media (55 min.)
P94.6.S7 1997
Summary: Presents an edited lecture, interspersed with visual examples, given by Stuart Hall, professor of Sociology at the Open University. Hall discusses the concept that reality is not experienced directly, but through the lens of culture, through the way that human beings represent, classify, and tell stories about the world in which they live. Using visual examples, Hall shows how the media, especially the visual media, have become the key players in the process of modern story telling.

True Colors (17 min.)
E 185.615.T7 1996
Summary: Diane Sawyer, ABC's Primetime Live host, follows two men--equal in all measurable aspects except skin color--as they go to car lots, dept. stores, job interviews, etc. (with hidden microphones and cameras) to test levels of prejudice based on skin color.

Valuing Diversity (230 min.)
HF 5549.5.M5V35 1990v.1-7
Contents: pt. 1. Managing differences (30 min.) -- pt. 2. Diversity at work (29 min.) -- pt. 3. Communicating across cultures (30 min.) -- pt. 4. You make the difference (25 min.) -- pt. 5. Supervising differences (31 min.) -- pt. 6. Champions of diversity (27 min.) -- pt. 7. Profiles in change (58 min.). Summary: Describes how management must consider race, ethnicity, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, and culture in order to promote productive work relations and effective communication at the work place.

The Way Home (92 min.)
HQ1410.B87 1998
Summary: Over the course of eight months, 64 women come together to share their experiences of oppression through the lens of race. Separated into eight ethnic councils, Indigenous, African-American, Arab, Asian, European-American, Jewish, Latina, and Multiracial, the women explore their stories of identity, oppression, and resistance.

Who Killed Vincent Chin? (82 min.)
HT1521.W49 1988
Summary: Documentary on racism in working-class America focuses on the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American, outside a Detroit bar. Interweaves the murder with social concerns and questions about justice.

A World of Differences: Understanding Cross-cultural Communication (35 min.)
P94.6.W67 1997
Summary: Highlights the potentials for misunderstanding when different cultures interact both verbally and nonverbally. Examines problem areas of food, gestures idioms, ritual and courtesy, touch and personal space, emotion, parents and children, courtship and marriage, and intercultural couples.