Race and Ethnicity

The 7 Train: An Immigrant Journey (29min.)
F128.9.A1 A2 1999
Summary: Each day 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride the most ethnically diverse region in the United States. Follows four immigrant passengers: a Korean who works in a Harlem fish store, two Otavalen street vendors in Chinatown, and a gay Pakistani fabric salesman on Fifth Avenue. Their lives and their conflicted relationships with the city and its other residents are juxtaposed with the subway they take each day to get to Manhattan.

50 Years Of Silence: The Story Of Jan Ruff-O'Herne (57 min.)
D810.C698 A15 1994
Summary: The war-time experiences of Jan Ruff-O'Herne and other young Dutch women who were forced to be prostitutes in Semarang when they and their families were imprisoned in camps by the Japanese in Indonesia during World War II.

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.

2000 Years of Freedom and Honor: the Cochin Jews of India (80 min.)
DS135.I62S64 2000
Summary: Explores the religious, cultural and economic life of the Cochini Jews in their native India, even as we follow the younger generation to a new life as Israelis.

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.

Abolição = Abolition (150 min.)
HT1128 .A26 1988
Summary: An examination of the history of slavery in Brazil and the current racial situation of Black Brazilians on the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Examines the contemporary political, economic, social and cultural issues faced by Black Brazilians through interviews with various members of Black Brazilian society.

Africa: Search for Common Ground (13 videocassettes, 25-26 min. each)
DT30.5.A3557 1997, v. 1-13
Summary: Filmed in various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, this series profiles a wide variety of formal efforts to resolve contemporary conflicts without resorting to violence.
Pt.1: South Africa: Thokasa Video Dialogue
Pt.2: Kinshasa, When Everything Falls Apart / Breaking the Cycle
Pt.3: Rwanda: The War Crimes Tribunal/Burundi: Reconciliation Radio
Pt.4: Mozambique: Cleansing The Past/Angola: Rivers Of Fear
Pt.5: Uganda: No Party Democracy?/Liberia: A Peace Process With Teeth?
Pt.6: South Africa: The Hunt For Witches
Pt.7: Western Sahara: The Last Colony?/Mozambique: Integration In Action? Farmers In Niassa?
Pt.8: Mali: A.T. And The Peace Flame/Lesotho: Water, Water Everywhere
Pt.9: South Africa: Between Confession And Prosecution -Truth And Reconciliation
Pt.10: South Africa: Under The Baobab. Angola: Making The Peace Song,
Pt.11: Algeria: The Struggle For Free Press And A Democratic Society,
Pt.12: Eritrea: Three Generations Of Women: Three Generations Of Struggle
Pt.13: South Africa, Angola & Namibia: San Soldiers

African American Lives (240 min.)
E185.96 .A4463 2006
Summary: Uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace the roots of several accomplished African Americans through American history and back to Africa. Featuring: Dr. Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Chris Tucker and Oprah Winfrey.
Contents: Listening to our past / producer and director, Jesse Sweet -- The promise of freedom / producer and director, Leslie Asako Gladsjo -- Searching for our names / producer and director, Leslie D. Farrell -- Beyond the middle passage / producer and director, Graham Judd.

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (360 min: Duration for each program: 90 min. each)
E446 .A27 2000
Summary: A four part series portraying the struggles of the African people in America, from the early 1600's through the Civil War. This series defines the reality of slavery's past through commentary, revelations, dramatic recreations, archival photography, and first-person accounts.

After the Immigrant: A Documentary Series about Ethnicity and Its Many Meanings
(342 min entire 2 disc set, actual documentaries, 57 min each)
E184.M5 A48 2005
Mountain’s Mist & Mexico (57 min) Summary: A portrait of Mexican immigration to the Midwest that examines issues of assimilation, class structure, language, and ethics on both sides of the border. Originally produced in 1995.
Indigenous Always (57 min) Summary: Examines the life and legacy of the 16th century Indian woman known as La Malinche, who by her role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico and in giving birth to Cortes’s son is a symbol of both cultural destruction and creation. Originally produced in 2000
Redlining (57 min) Summary: By looking at cultural representations of stereotypes, this program examines diversity related topics, and what lies below the surface regarding the language and policies of immigration and culture assimilation. Originally produced in 2003.

All God's children (26 min.)
BL65.H64A45 1996
Summary: A look at some of the issues and concerns of Black gays and lesbians with comments from prominent political and religious leaders in the Black community.

Ancestors in the Americas. Chinese in the Frontier West : An American Story (60 min)
E184.C5A53 1998
Summary: Chronicles the arrival of the Chinese during the 1850s to 1880s in California during the Gold Rush period and their subsequent settlement in the Western states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Includes the history of their labor, community building and activism for justice and equality in the courts of mid-19th century America.

Ancestors in the Americas. Coolies Sailors Settlers (64 min)
JV8490.A53 1996
Summary: Explains how Asians--Filipino, Chinese, and Asian Indian--first arrived in the Americas, from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade, to the Opium War, to the 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean.

Anchor of the Soul (50min.)
E185.93.M15 A53 2004
Summary: Provides an in-depth look at Black history and race relations in northern New England. Tells a story of African Americans struggling to create and sustain a church in Portland, Maine. The Abyssinian Church, founded in the early 1800's, became the Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church. The film consists of three parts. Part one covers the colonial period through the Civil War. Part two spans 1900 to the mid-1950s. Part three covers period from the civil rights movement to the mid-1990s.

And the Pursuit of Happiness (81 min.)
JV6455.A83 2007
Summary: "In 1986, Louis Malle (himself a transplant to the United States) set out to investigate the ever widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles in an increasingly polyglot nation" -- Container

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.

Angel Island (12min.)
F868.S156 A54 2003
Summary: From 1910 until 1943, Chinese immigrants to America passed through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. Unlike other groups, the Chinese were legally discriminated against under an 1882 law called the Chinese Exclusion Act. This program looks at how two women--one an artist, the other a documentary filmmaker--are raising funds and awareness to have the old immigration station restored.

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.

Apu condor (28 min.)
F3429.3.R58 A68 1992
Summary: Presents the Yawar fiesta of the Apu Condor from Cotabambas, Peru. The festival is celebrated on Peru's national day of independence and includes a local version of the classic Spanish bullfight

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.

As I remember It: A Portrait of Dorothy West
E185.86.A8 1991
Summary: From the perspective of her 83 years, the still-active African-American writer Dorothy West relates her memories of growing up black, privileged and enthralled by literature.

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.

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (91min.)
PN2286 .B43 2003
Summary: This documentary, a directorial debut of actress Lisa Gay Hamilton, celebrates the life of African American actress, poet and political activist Beah Richards, best known for her Oscar nominated including the poem "A Black Woman Speaks of White Womanhood, White Supremacy and Peace"; "Paul Robeson Speaks for Me," an emotionally charged poem she wrote in high school; and "What Then Is Black...," a poem that redefines the word "black."

A Beautiful Blend: Mixed Race in America (54 min.)
E184.A1B278 2004
Summary:
A beautiful blend: A documentary that explores the issues facing and attitudes of multiethnic and multiracial people living in the United States.
Hapa : one step at a time: examines how individuals of Asian and Pacific Islander descent are embracing their ethnic experiences as a symbol of change in an ever-evolving multicultural society. Explores what it means to be considered a mixed-race American today. The program is a first-person treatment of the struggles that people of diverse cultural backgrounds face.

Becoming American: The ChineseExperience (3 DVDs, approx. 85 min. each)
E184.C5 B43 2003 vol. 1-3
(Originally broadcast on PBS on March 25-27, 2003 and hosted by Bill Moyers.)
Volume 1: Gold Mountain Dreams
Summary: In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, this program traces the history and experiences of Chinese in the U.S., from the Gold Rush in California and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act which barred their entry into the country.
Volume 2: Between Two Worlds
Summary: In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, this program begins with a description of the early 1880s when a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment swept across America, abetted by the Chinese Exclusion Act. Families were kept apart by both ancient custom and U.S. law. These immigrants were trapped between countries, at home neither in the U.S. nor in China. The law of the land, which separated these families, also provided relief as Chinese Americans turned to the courts for justice. Presents Chinese Americans contributions during World War II, and describes their struggles to prove their value both in wartime and after returning home.
Volume 3: No Turning Back
Summary: In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, this program begins with the new immigration laws of 1965, which was a turning point for the Chinese in America and allowed a new wave of immigrants to enter the country. Provides information about discrimination against Chinese immigrants. Presents portraits of the new Chinese Americans who face a struggle common to many immigrants: to reconcile some losses of their old culture in order to embrace their adopted American one.

Between Light and Shadow: Maya Women In Transition (27 min.)
F1435.3.A7 B44 1997
Summary: Interviews with Mayan women artists who work to preserve Mayan culture, improve the lives of the Mayan people and promote a Maya presence in their community. Includes Mayan popular art in the form of woven textiles, embroidery and paintings.

Between Two Worlds: A Documentary (29 min.)
E184.O6 H46 1998
Summary: This documentary examines the difficulties experienced by first generation Asian American youth who struggle with living in Asian family culture and American culture. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean American young adults and members of their families expound upon the generational and cultural gaps existing in Asian American families and stereotypical perceptions of Asians in American society.

Beyond Barbed Wire: Untold Stories of American Courage (88min.)
D769.31 100th .B49 2001
Summary: Beyond barbed wire recounts the personal sacrifices and stories of heroism displayed by the Japanese American soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and Military Intelligence Service who fought for the United States during World War II while their families were held in internment camps. The feature film, Go for broke! is set during World War II which depicts Lt. Michael Grayson, a bigoted Texan, who is assigned to train and lead the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which is composed mostly of Japanese-Americans. Japanese relocation illustrates the process of relocating Japanese Americans to internment camps, life in the camps, and the reasoning behind the internments. The documentary, Challenge to democracy illustrates the training of Japanese American soldiers in the U.S. Army during World War II.

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.

Bittersweet Roots: The Chinese in California’s Heartland
(57 min)
F870.C5 B58 2002
Summary: The California Delta is the only place in America where the Chinese have maintained a sustained presence for nearly a century and a half. Here, immigrants from China transformed swampland into one of the richest agricultural regions on earth. This program tells their story, about how they came and thrived despite hardship and discrimination.

Black Indians: An American Story (60min.)
E98.R28 B53 2000
Summary: Explores the issue of racial identity among Native and African Americans. This documentary examines the coalescence of these two groups in American history and discusses the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans.

Black Is--Black Ain't: A Personal Journey Through Black Identity (88 min.)
E 185.625.B559 1995 & 2004
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 Soul = Âme Noire (10min.)
CB235.B53 2000
Summary: As an old lady initiates her grandson into his past, a series of perpetually transforming images painted directly under the animation camera unfolds.

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.

Body, Soul, & Voice (27 min.)
PN1995.9.A78B63 1993
Contents: Open letter : grasp the bird's tail (15 min.) /by Brenda Joy Lem -- Picturing Oriental girls : a (re)educational videotape (12 min.) / by Valerie Soe.
Summary: Two short films look at issues facing Asian women. Picturing Oriental girls is a compendium of stereotypical portrayals of Asian women in film. In Open letter, a young woman writes her thoughts about sexual violence in a racist society through a letter to her lover in this fictional short.

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.

The Bronze Screen(88 min.)
PN1995.9.M49B76 2002
Summary: The Bronze Screen honors the past, illuminates the present, and opens a window to the future of Latinos in motion pictures. From silent movies to urban gang films, stereotypes of the "Greaser", the "Lazy Mexican", the "Latin Lover" and the "Dark Lady" are examined. The film traces the progression of this distorted screen image to the increased prominence of today's Latino actors, writers and directors.

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (83 min.)
E185.97.R93 B73 2002
Summary: A documentary examining the life of Bayard Rustin, one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. However, Rustin was forced to play a background role in landmark civil rights events because he was homosexual.

Brothers and Others (55 min.)
JC599.U6 B76 2002
Summary: Documents the impact of the September 11th terrorist attack on Muslims and Arabs living in the United States. Follows a number of immigrants and American families as they struggle in the heightened climate of hate, fear, FBI and INS investigations, and economic hardships that occurred in the United States following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Includes interviews with immigrants, government representatives, and legal and historical experts.

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.

Carnival In Q'eros: Where The Mountains Meet The Jungle (32 min.)
F2230.2.K4 .C64 1990
Summary: Shows the carnival celebrations of a remote community of Quechua Indians high in the Peruvian Andes.

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.

Caught in the Crossfire: Arab Americans in Wartime (54 min.)
F128.9.A65 C38 2002
Summary: Examines the lives of three Arab Americans--a police officer, a Christian pastor, and a journalist--in New York City in the months since the terrorist attacks of Sept., 2001.

Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Fights Movement 2 videodiscs (228 min.)
E184.M5 C432 2007
Summary: Land, labor, educational reform, and political empowerment are the four themes of this documentary regarding the Mexican American civil rights movement from 1965 to 1975.

China: Trading in Death (30 min.)
JC599.C6 C43 1990z
Summary: Examines the abuses of civil and human rights in China, which continue despite the recent economic development in that country. Foreign companies enjoy the benefits of cheap labor, but make no provisions for safety arrangements or human rights. Also describes how the Public Safety Bureau, which controls all aspects of citizens' lives, usually chooses to ignore legal dictates.

China Dolls (28 min.)
HQ76.2.A8 C55 1990z
Summary: A portrayal of gays of Asian descent in Australia that explores the relationship between race and sexuality and probes the uncomfortable reality of racial stereotyping and discrimination in the gay world through interviews with Asian men who talk frankly, and often humorously, of their experiences living within a double minority. The filmmaker himself tells a highly personal story of his journey from denial to self acceptance.

The Chinatown Files (58 min.)
E184.C5 C452 2001
Summary: A documentary exploring the legacy of McCarthyism on the Chinese American community. Chinese American men and women who were hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation speak out on how they and their friends were investigated and persecuted by government agents during the 1950s.

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.

Comrades (27 min.)
HX40 .C678 1999
Sumary: A personal documentary essay about two men who took part in the violent socialist struggles of the mid-20th century, only to face resistance and disillusionment. The director’s father, Yook Wong, joined the Communist Revolution that swept through China in 1949. A generation later, a man named Alex Hing founded a group in San Francisco called the Red Guard, modeled after the radical communist youth of China. In the end, the revolution didn’t turn out the way either one expected.

Counseling the Multiracial Population: Couples, Individuals, Families (74 min.)
BF637.C6 C667 2002
Summary: Includes live counseling demonstrations with interracial couples, multiracial individuals, and multiracial families including a cross-racial adoptive family and cross-racial adoptee.

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.

Culturally-competent Counseling and Therapy 2 videocassettes (160 min.)
RC455.4.E8 C86 1999
Summary: A series of vignettes demonstrating innovative approaches for multi-cultural counseling from culture specific perspectives.
Contents: [v. 1.] pt. 1 Innovative approaches to counseling African descent people (37 min.) -- pt. 2 Innovative approaches to counseling Asian-American people (37 min.) -- [v. 2.] pt. 3 Innovative approaches to counseling Latina/Latino people (25 min.) -- pt. 4 Innovative approaches to counseling Native American Indian people (34 min.) -- pt. 5 Innovative approaches from a White perspective (27 min.).

The Culture of Poverty (27 min.)
LC2670 .C85 2005
Summary: "Many Latino families are caught in the cycle of poverty : unemployment, poor education, and single-parent homes create a self-perpetuating cycle. The task of educating the child victims of this culture of poverty puts added strain on an already burdened school system. This program explores emerging strategies for meeting the needs of these children, and profiles an independent effort to keep kids off the street and instill in them a sense of pride" -- Container.

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.

Desire (84 min.)
HQ798 .D47 2005
Summary: Five young women, of various racial and economic backgrounds, tell their stories to filmmaker Julie Gustafson.

Dharamsala: Tibet in Exile (48 min.)
DS432.T5 D53 1999
Summary: Several Tibetans in exile in Dharamsala, India tell their stories. They describe their history, their reorganization according to democratic principles, their goals for education and an eventual return to their homeland.

Diamonds in the Rough: Zeni and the Legacy of Japanese-American Baseball (33 min)
GV863.A1 D53 1999
Summary: Discusses the role of Kenichi Zenimura, the 'Dean of the Diamond,' in the development of Japanese American baseball, especially at the internment camps during World War II.

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.

Discovering (57 min.)
F1466.7 .D59 2002
Summary: Denese Becker, born Dominga Sic Ruiz, is a survivor of the 1982 Rio Negro massacre in Guatemala. Nine years old at the time of the massacre, during which both of her parents were killed, Denese was adopted by an American family and raised in Iowa. As an adult she begins to confront her memories and nightmares, returning to Guatemala almost twenty years after the massacre and ultimately becoming an advocate for the victims and survivors at great personal cost.

The Displaced View (52 min.)
HQ759.9 .D57 1988
Summary: A Japanese-Canadian woman discusses and illustrates her ties to her Japanese grandmother and Japanese heritage.

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.

Double Solitaire (20 min.)
D769.8.A6 D68 1998
Summary: Uses the motif of games to look at how the Japanese American internment during World War II affected the lives of two "ordinary" people. Third generation Japanese Americans Norm and Stan Ohama are "all American" guys who were placed in the Amache internment camp as children. They don’t feel the experience affected them much, but the film reveals connections between their lives now and the history that was left behind.

Dreams of Tibet (60 min.)
DS786 .D74 1997
Summary: Journalist Orville Schell explores the West's recent interest in Tibet and its growing awareness of an excerpts of several Hollywood feautre film interpretations of Tibet.

The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde (59min.)
PS3562.O75 Z58 2002
Summary: Documents black lesbian poet and activist Audre Lorde's (1934-92) social vision, using footage from the four-day conference: I am your sisters: forging global connections across differences, held in Boston in 1990. At the conference 1,200 men, women and young people from 23 countries examined the issues of the relations between race, class, gender and sexuality through Lorde's work. Interviews with the organizers of the conference are intercut with conference footage, including performances, controversies and speeches.

Edward Said on Orientalism (40 min)
DS12 .E29 1998
Summary: Edward Said talks about the context in which his book, Orientalism, was conceived, its main themes, and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient."

Escuela (53min.)
LC2683 .E838 2002
Summary: Liliana Luis is one of eight children in a migrant farm worker family. During the school year her family moves three times, presenting her with new challenges each time in settling into a new school, catching up on schoolwork, and making new friends. Liliana's story portrays the issues facing migrant students and the public school system.

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

The Exception And The Rule (30 min.)
HB4903.5.B7 E93 1997
Summary: This is the story of three Black Brazilians who have experienced employment discrimination based on their race. When they pursue legal restitution, only one, the exception, is reinstated while the other two are denied justice.

Facing Racism (57 min.)
E184.A1 F23 2005
Summary: Follows five participants of different ethnic and racial backgrounds through a three-day Unlearning Racism workshop. This program represents both a strong statement on the complex issues surrounding racism and an honest depiction of the difficulties involved in resolving them.

The Family Table (27 min.)
HQ684 .L47 1983
Summary: Highlights the contrasting lives of two Chinese families, a four-generation rural family in a Sichuan village and a single-child family in urban Hangzhou, by showing the routines of their daily meals.

Family Ties: The story of Adeline Yen Mah (29min.)
E184.C5F36 2003
Summary: Adeline Yen Mah, the author of Falling leaves, traces her and her family's life from Shanghai of the 1930s to the Cultural Revolution, through her life as a doctor in California.

Farmingville (78min.)
E184.M5 F37 2004
Summary: In the late 1990s, some 1,500 Mexican workers moved to the middle-class town of Farmingville, New York, population 15,000. This program looks at the controversy surrounding the suburban community, its ever-expanding population of illegal immigrants, and the hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers there.

Festivals in Taiwan (30 min.)
DS799.812 .F47 1990z
Summary: Customs and festivals in Taiwan take the form of a unique culture of temple-fairs. This documentary illustrates the folk customs, beliefs, and festivals that correspond with the lunar calendar.

Finally Got the News-- (55 min.)
HD8081.A65 F56 2003
Summary: A documentary presenting the workers' view of working conditions inside Detroit's auto factories. It focuses on the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in their efforts to build an independent African American labor organization which, unlike the United Auto Workers, would respond to the racism and dangerous working conditions faced by African American workers in the industry. It also explores the educational "tracking" the role of African American women in the labor force, and racial relations between workers.

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.

Food for Body and Spirit (29 min.)
BL65.F65 L47 1983
Summary: Investigates the impact of religious influences of Chinese cuisine. Takes the viewer into a Taoist temple kitchen and an herbal medicine restaurant. A visit to a monastery illustrates the role of Buddhism in the development of China's extensive vegeterian cuisine.

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.

The Forgotten (27 min.)
HV636 2005 .G85 F67 2005
Summary: The forgotten: "Along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, relief efforts have been slow to get underway. Many people are angry and residents in some neighborhoods have raised questions about race and class in the wake of the disaster. NOW continues its month-long coverage of the aftermath of Katrina as Maria Hinojosa reports from the devastated Mississippi coast, where tens of thousands remain without essential services like power and water" -- Container.

The Forgotten Americans (57 min.)
HV4045.5.T4 F67 2000
Summary: A look at the lives of the urban poor living in "Las Colonias", a group of over 1500 unincorporated settlements along the Mexican-American Border Region.

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.

Fra Mao Til Money (28 min.)
HC427.8 .F73 2001
Summary: A look at Chinese society as it is being transformed by burgeoning capitalism. What does one call the new system? Market communism or communist capitalism? And what of the growing gap between rich and poor? The super rich worry that the government will raise taxes, while the poor worry about how to feed their families, get health care and education for their children. As capitalism spreads from Beijing and Shanghai to the provinces, entrepreneurs strive for the greatest profit.

From Swastika to Jim Crow (60min.)
LC2781.F765 2002
Summary: Before and during the Second World War Jewish scholars who escaped Nazi Germany and immigrated to the U.S. faced an uncertain future. Confronted with anti-Semitism at major universities and a public distrust of foreigners, a surprising number secured teaching positions at historically Black colleges in the South. In many cases they formed lasting relationships with their students and had an important impact on the communities in which they lived. This is a story of two cultures, each sharing a burden of oppression, brought together by the tragic circumstances of war.

From Washington: Report on Integration (30min.)
KF4155 .F76 2004
Summary: This program brings together a panel of journalists from the Southern Education Reporting Service to discuss overall progress in complying with the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation ruling, as well as integration resistance and anti-integration violence.

Game Over (41 min.)
GV1469.3.G36 2000
Summary: This educational documentary addresses the questions of gender, race, and violence in video games. Asks: what are the messages of video games, why are the majority of game players men, do video games desensitize children to violence, and how are race, masculinity, and women represented?

Gaza Strip (74 min.)
DS153.55.P34 .G397 2002
Summary: American filmmaker James Longley follows a range of Palestinian Arabs living in the Gaza Strip and events following the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, including the first major armed incursion by the Israeli Army (IDF) forces in spring 2001. Filmed almost entirely in the Cinéma vérité style without narration and with little explanation, this documentary focuses on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians presenting a rare look inside the stark realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military occupation.

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.

God Grew Tired of Us (90 min.)
HV640.5.S9 G63 2007
Summary: Presents the plight of Sudanese refugees being displaced to foreign countries due to civil war in their homeland. Known as "Lost Boys", the film tells the story of three of these "Lost Boy" refugees who struggled to come to the United States for a better life, while still attempting to assist the family and friends they have left behind.

The Good Wife of Tokyo (52 min.)
HQ1762 .G66 2001
Summary: Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her rock band after living in England for 15 years. This film records her re-experiencing of Japan after a long absence, examining traditional attitudes towards women and those of Kuzuko's friends who are trying to expand their roles as Japanese women.

The Grace Lee Project (68 min.)
E184.A75 G73 2005
Summary: Filmmaker Grace Lee conducts a series of interviews with other women, predominantly Asian-American, who share her name.

Hanging Out (21min.)
F1035.C5H36 1999
Summary: Guides viewers through dramatic vignettes that explore issues of inter-racial and intra-racial prejudice in real life situations. Focuses on Vancouver's urban middle-class Chinese and Chinese Canadian teens to explore the complexities of being "ethnic."

Hanta Po: All of You Out of My Way, a Photographic Retrospective of the American Indian Movement (49 min.)
E93 .H26 2006
Summary: Spokesman for The American Indian Movement Vernon Bellecourt and photographer Dick Bancroft recount the stories behind an exhibit of Bancroft’s AIM-related photography.

Heart Mountain: Three Years in a Relocation Center (27 min.)
D769.8.A6 H43 1997
Summary: Documents the internment of more than 10,000 Pacific Japanese and Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain Relocation Center during WWII. In addition to undesirable living conditions, internees often faced doubt about their loyalty to the United States.

Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story (27min.)
D769.8.A6 H53 2004
Summary: Reveals the history of the Japanese Latin American internment through the life story of Art Shibayama, who was taken from Peru in 1944 and interned in a Dept. of Justice camp in Crystal City, Texas. He was just one of over 2,000 Latin Americans who were forcibly uprooted and interned. Despite his incarceration, Art and other Latin Americans have been denied the redress that has been provided to Japanese Americans.

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.

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (32 min.)
D769.8.A6 T35 1991
Summary: Blends interviews, memorabilia, Hollywood depictions of Japanese Americans, and World War II propaganda to describe the impacts of forced internment on American Japanese for generations thereafter. Includes a pilgrimage to the camp where the videomaker's mother was interned, and the story of her father, who had been drafted before Pearl Harbor and returned to find his family's house removed from its site.

Home of the Brave (74 min)
E185.98.L58 H66 2003
Summary: Tells the story of Viola Liuzzo, the only White woman murdered in the civil rights movement and why we hear so little about her. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother’s heroism and the mystery behind her killing.

A Home on the Range: Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma (52min.)
F870.J5H66 2002
Summary: Presents the story of a group of East European Jewish immigrants who confront obstacles of language and culture on their journey towards becoming Americans, and make their new home in Petaluma, California.

Honor Bound: A Personal Journey (55 min.)
D753.8 .H66 1996
Summary: The story, as told by Sgt. Howard Hanamura to his daughter, of the 100th/442 Regimental Combat Team, a segregated, Japanese American combat unit which fought in Europe during World War II while their families were in internment camps. The ultimate mission of these soldiers was upholding the honor of their people.

Hoxie: The First Stand (55 min.)
LC214.23.H68 A67 2002
Summary: This documentary tells the story of one of the earliest school integration battles in the South. In the summer of 1955, the school board of a small, rural Arkansas town voluntarily desegregated its schools (they were the first in the "Delta" South to do so). The newly formed White Citizens' Councils saw this as a test for southern resistance to the Supreme Court's desegregation decision in Brown v. the Board of Education and soon descended on the town. They organized local citizens to try to force the board to rescind its order, but the five members and superintendent stood their ground. With the NAACP helping to keep the Black families united, the board sought an injunction against the segregationists. Eventually, they drew an extremely reluctant federal government into a case that nullified state segregation laws.

I am a Man (60 min.)
E185.86 .I16 2006
Summary: An exploration of "what it means to be a black man in America... [confronting] issues of race, and racism, through the lens of gender, probing deep within the traditional American ideals of manhood in order to draw out the complex and often ambivalent nature of black male identity." -- Container.

I was Born a Black Woman (59 min)
F2538.5.S55 A35 2004
Summary: Discusses the life of Benedita da Silva, the first Black woman Senator in Brazil. Da Silva was born into poverty, started working at age seven and gradually gained stature for herself and her community through education, faith in God, and community organizing.

I’m Normal, You’re Weird: Understanding Other Cultures
(24 min)
GN345.65 .I5 1998
Summary: Examines the differences between the world’s cultures and how different interpretations of same or similar actions or reactions can affect abilities of people to interact successfully.

Icemen of Chimborazo = Los Hieleros del Chimborazo (23 min.)
HD9481.E38 I34 2002
Summary: Peasants from a rural village in Ecuador trek high in to sell to fresh food vendors at the market. Examines the economic and social situation of many indigenous people of the Andes Mountains. There is no spoken commentary and the spoken dialogue is not subtitled.

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.

Immigrant Story: Hong Kong (23 min.)
HC470.3 .I46 1999
Summary: Hong Kong has long been the dreams for future and prosperity for people in Mainland China even after the handover. This program presents the story of three children leaving their mother behind in Shan Wei, China to live with their father in Hong Kong. The program depicts how these children live in such a very small home in Hong Kong, why the father has to quit his job to take care of the children, and how much they are longing for their mother to come to Hong Kong.

In Satmar Custody (70min.)
BM198.55 .I5 2003
Summary: Reveals the story of the Jaradi's, a Jewish Yemenite family, who were persuaded to immigrate to the United States by the Satmar Community, an Ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist group. When their infant daughter is hospitalized after an accident, the Satmars confiscate the Jaradi children. When the child dies, the Satmars claim that the Jaradi's are unfit parents and Welfare Services place the remaining six children in the custody of Satmar families. This film also contends that the Satmars use anti-Israeli propaganda to convince Jews not to emigrate to Israel.

The Intolerable Burden (56 min.)
LC214.22.M7 I68 2002
Summary: Documentary film of how Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter enrolled the youngest eight of their thirteen children in the public schools of Drew, Mississippi in 1965, which were all white. The Drew school board had initiated a "freedom of choice" plan to bring the district in compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but Blacks were not expected to choose all white schools.

Island Of Shadows: The D'Arcy Island Leper Colony, 1891-1924 (48 min.)
RA644.L3 I85 20
Summary: A documentary about the treatment of Chinese dying of leprosy in Canada and their incarceration on D'Arcy Island off the west coast of British Columbia. When the first case of leprosy appeared among Chinese laborers in the early 1890s, civil officials panicked, and banished the victims the virtually "escape-proof" island, where they were left to die. Although medical officers condemned the conditions, nothing was done. The conditions for the Chinese on the island contrasted starkly with conditions at Canada's other leper hospital in Tracadie, N.B., where nuns looked after the patients, a physician was resident and meals were prepared by a cook. The story focuses on Lim Sam, a composite character emblematic of the Chinese men banished to D'Arcy Island.

Juxta (29 min.)
PN1997 .J89 2001
Summary: Dramatization about the complex psychological effects of racially mixed children of Japanese women and American servicemen in the 1950's and mid 1980's.

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.

Korean Americans (50 min.)
E184.K6 M37 2003
Summary: Examines to world of urban Korean Americans who seek to retain their traditional cultural values while adjusting to life in the U.S. Explores why Korean Americans have frequently come into violent conflict with inner-city African Americans, and how they have sought, through their own ethnic civic organizations, to overcome the perceived rejection of the community around them.

La Señorita Lee (25 min.)
PN1997.S33585 1995
Summary: In this dramatic short, Jeanie Lee, a young Korean-American woman, pregnant by her recently departed Mexican boyfriend and about to be married to a dull, parentally-approved Korean doctor, is torn between conflicting cultural values. Her untimely pregnancy awakens powerful desires and memories in Jeanie, forcing her to choose between traditional family values and personal freedom.

Lao Tou = Old Men (94 min.)
HQ1063.2.C6 L38 1999
Summary: Film documents the lives of a group of retired old men in Beijing. These men gather at the place at the same times throughout the day because of their need for a routine. Many of these men refer to themselves as "hopeless" or "useless."

Lest We Forget (57min.)
HV6432.7 .L47 2003
Summary: After the Terrorist attacks of 9/11, some Americans began defining a new "enemy alien"--American Arabs, South Asians, and Muslims. The film contains stories told by individuals who have felt and/or discrimination and it explores the historical context of racism and discrimination in the United States during times of war.

Light in the Shadows (43min.)
HQ1237.5.U6 L54 2003
Summary: This video is a follow-up to "The Way Home" and is second in a series of video programs which explores the subject of race an discrimination in the U.S. Dialogue takes place between American women of varying ethnic backgrounds.

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

Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 (60 min.)
HQ75.6.U5 L58 1999
Summary: Documentary with narrative recreations about the life and times of Ruth Ellis, the oldest "out" African American lesbian. Includes archival footage.

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.

Looking Like the Enemy (52 min.)
E184.O6 L66 1990z
Summary: American soldiers of Asian descent who fought in World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars share their personal experiences with prejudice and discrimination in the military.

Los Trabajadores = The Workers (48 min.)
HD8081.H7 C68 2001
Summary: Tells the story of immigrant day laborers, placing their struggles and contributions in the context of the economic development of Austin, Texas. Through the stories of Juan from Nicaragua and Ramon from Mexico, and through the controversy surrounding the relocation of a day labor site from downtown to a residential neighborhood, the film examines the misconceptions and contradictions inherent in the United States' dependence on and discrimination against immigrant labor.

Love, Culture & the Kitchen Sink (46 min.)
HQ1031 .L68 2001
Summary: Takes a look at the personal lives of four cross-cultural couples in Canada and how their cultural differences affect them and their children.

Mainstream (28 min)
E78.W3M35 2001
Summary: Diana Abrahamson contrasts her hurried life in New York City with her current life on the Indian reservation in Spokane, Washington where she grew up. She discusses the differences in living on the reservation as opposed to living in "mainstream" America.

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.

Meeting at Tule Lake (33 min.)
D769.8.A6 M44 1995
Summary: A group of Japanese Americans who were interned at the Tule Lake Relocation Center during World War II travel back to the site of the center to dedicate a memorial to the 50th anniversary of their internment there. Some of them also tell of their memories of being interned there. Also included are archival footage and photographs of various aspects of life at the center.

Middle Passage-N-Roots (30 min.)
TT972 .M53 1995
Summary: Examines attitudes about hair and its connection to self-image and self-worth. Afros, processed, corn rows, braids and dreds are all explored and explained.

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.

Mississippi Triangle (80 min)
E350.C5 M57 1987
Summary: Explores ethnic relations among Chinese, African Americans, and Whites in the Mississippi Delta. Focuses on the little-known history of the Chinese community, using historical footage and interviews with Delta residents.

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.

Monkey dance (65 min.)
E184.K45 M66 2005
Summary: Explores the lives of three Cambodian American teenagers as they come of age in the United States while holding on to some aspects of their Cambodian culture such as Cambodian dance.

Moving Memories (32 min.)
E184.J3 M68 1993
Summary: Features restored and edited home movies taken by Japanese American immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Murder of Emmett Till (60 min.)
F350.N4 M87 2003
Summary: The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.

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.

Nanjing Nightmares (45 min.)
DS777.533.A86 N36 2001
Summary: The Japanese subjugation of the capital of China in 1937-38 has been called "The Rape of Nanjing" or the "Nanjing Atrocity." This documentary recounts the historical events leading up to the occupation: the growth of Nanjing; the expansionist ambitions of Japan; resistance by the Chinese army in the defense of Shanghai. Archival film footage depicts the genocide in Nanjing, in which thousands upon thousands of people were killed and raped in a one month period.

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (58 min.)
F232.S7 .N48 2002
Summary: Evaluates the authenticity of the earliest source, "The Confessions of Nat Turner", assembled by a white Virginia lawyer from jailhouse interviews. It then follows the controvery over the Nat Turner story played out through history. Alvin Poussaint and Ossie Davis recall how Nat Turner became a hero in the Black community. Religious scholar Vincent Harding and legal scholar Martha Minow reflect on America's attitudes toward terrorism. One of the most bitter race of the 1960s is reexamined, when William Styron published his novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner.

A Negação do Brasil = Denying Brazil (92 min.)
PN1992.8.S4 N44 2000
Summary: Using his own memories, as well as television footage, the director analyzes race relations as portrayed in early Brazilian soap operas.

The Negro Soldier (41 min.)
E185.63 .N45 1998
Summary: U.S. War Dept. film made to show the contributions of Blacks to the American military, especially in World War II, by using actual newsreel film as well as captured enemy material and recreated scenes. Produced by Frank Capra while he served with the War Department, Special Services Division, Army Special Forces with the cooperation of the Signal Corps.

Neighborhood Tokyo (28 min.)
HT147.J3 N44 1996
Summary: Portrays Miyamoto-cho, a community just south of central Tokyo. Shows how residents strive to maintain close social ties, symbols of local identity, and community rituals against the pressures of present social and economic conditions.

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.

Obachan No Gade = Obachan's Garden (95min.)
F1089.7.J3O23 2003
Summary: In the wake of the 1923 earthquake that devastated Tokyo, 25-year-old Asayo Murakami left Japan, her husband and two children, to resettle in Canada. Using dramatizations, newsreel footage, family photos, and interviews with the 103-year-old Asayo - Obachan, or Grandmother, as her extended Canadian family calls her - this program traces one woman's tumultuous life story. From her early years in Japan, to her arrival in British Columbia as a mail-order bride, to her internment during World War II, to a reunion with a long-lost daughter, Obachan's remarkable personal story illustrates the Asian immigrant experience during the 20th century.

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story (60 min.)
D769.8.A6 O32 2000
Summary: Presents the story of Fred Korematsu, who resisted the internment of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast during World War II. Focuses on Korematsu’s life, the reasons behind taking his case to the Supreme Court, and the 40-year legal battle to vindicate Korematsu.

One Drop (49 min.)
E185.625 .O54 2001
Summary: Explores the recurring and divisive issue of skin color in African American communities. The film inter-cuts interviews with darker skinned African Americans, lighter skinned African Americans and inter-racial children of black and white parents.

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.

Our God the Condor (30 min.)
F3429.3.R58 O87 1990
Summary: The Yawar Festival in the southern mountains of Peru is an annual event representing the Indians triumph over the Spaniards. In the ceremony, a condor, symbolic of the Andean mountain spirit, is captured and tied to the back of a bull, which represents Spain. The two animals then fight in an emblematic struggle between the Peruvian Indians and the Spanish conquerors.

Our Nation :A Korean Punk Rock Community (39 min.)
ML3534.O97 2001
Summary: Documents how Korean youth use punk rock to find a voice in their rapidly changing culture. Through the eyes of two young college fans, the film journeys through the underground punk rock scene presenting the impact of a steady stream of new musical influences from abroad. Sociology professor Cho Hai Joang provides a socio-historical overview of the youth subculture in Korea, and the impact of the emergence of consumer capitalism and the social impact of globalization on Korean culture.

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.

A Peace Corps mosaic 2 videocassettes (200 min.)
PE 1.13.W 89/TEACH/V.1-V.2/VIDEO
Summary: Video guides to the World Wise School’s Destination video series, which features nearly a dozen countries that Peace Corps serves. The guides introduce Peace Corps program countries and offer activity ideas designed to encourage students to examine their own culture and identify similarities and differences existing among all cultures.
Contents: v. 1. Teacher video guide: To touch the world. Destination: Honduras. Destination: Kyrgyzstan. Destination: Lesotho. Destination: Poland. Destination: Sri Lanka. Peace Corps activities -- v. 2. Teacher video guide: To touch the world. Destination: Cameroon. Destination: Lithuania. Destination: Nepal. Destination: Paraguay. Destination: Senegal. Peace Corps activities.

People of the Andes (27 min.)
F3741.A6P46 1998
Summary: An introduction to the people, history and culture of the Andes Region.

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 Personal Matter : Gordon Hirabayashi versus the United States (28 min.)
KF7224.5 .P47 1997
Summary: Documents the 43 year struggle to overturn the conviction of Gordon Hirabayashi which resulted when he defied internment in a Japanese American concentration camp during World War II on the grounds that the order violated his Constitutional freedoms.

Pilgrimage (23 min.)
D769.8.A6 P55 2006
Summary: "Tells how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans was transformed into a symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post 9/11 world" -- Container
Special features: "The first Manzanar pilgrimage : December 27, 1969" archival footage (4 min.); "36th annual Manzanar pilgrimage : retrospection & relevance, commemorating the first pilgrimage & its meaning for today. April 30, 2005" featurette (9 min.); "Breaking the fast : an Angeleno gathering for Ramadan. November 6, 2004" featurette (6 min.); 6 additional interviews (with Rev. Lloyd Wake, Sue Embrey, Robert Nakamura, Hamid Khan, Yousef Baker, Nancy Hernandez).

Point of Attack (23 min.)
JV6483 .P65 2004
Summary: Looks at the U.S. government’s policy since September 11, 2001 towards immigrants from Middle Eastern and South Asian countries that are predominantly Muslim. Charges that the compulsory registration of men from these countries and the mass detention and deportation of Muslim immigrants are discriminatory actions based on religion.

A Place of our Own (53 min)
E185.86 .P53 2004
Summary: The film documents how a community and its people have changed over time. Located a mile off the coast of Cape Cod, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, is the town of Oak Bluffs. For generations, upper middle-class Black families have vacationed here. Filled with recollections from well-known Oak Bluffs residents including Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor Lani Guinier and Dr. Manning Marable, the film also examines the issue of intergenerational conflict.

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 Popovich Brothers of South Chicago (60 min.)
E184.S5P67 1994
Summary: Presents a musical portrait of the South Chicago's Serbian-American community, as reflected by the Popovich Brothers, a tamburitza orchestra that provided a constant source of traditional Serbian music over fifty years. Also explores the role of traditional music in the continuity and survival of ethnic cultural traditions.

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.

Promises (106 min.)
DS119.76 .P76 2003
Summary: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict as seen through the eyes of seven Palestinian and Israeli children from Jerusalem, aged 8-13. The children, interviewed between 1997 and 2000, talk about their hopes, fears, sadness and their skepticism about the prospect of peace.

Qallunaat!: Why White People are Funny (47 min.)
E99.E7 Q25 2006
Summary: "A fresh and long overdue ’study’ of white people from the Inuit point of view. Not surprisingly, these ’Qallunologists’ find the ways of white culture a bit peculiar and often riotously funny. [The researchers] consider their odd dating habits, their lame attempts at Arctic exploration, their overbearing bureaucrats and curious obsession with owning property" -- Container.
Special features (47 min.): "Qallunaanik piusiqsiuriniq : the study of white people" (featurette about a fictional conference on the study of white people at the fictional Qallunaat Studies Institute).

Quiet Passages (27 min.)
F690.J3 Q54 1995
Summary: This documentary presents the experiences of Japanese women who married servicemen from the United States after World War II and came to Kansas to live with their husbands. The stories of these women’s lives are mainly told through interviews with their children.

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: The Power of an Illusion (3 videos, each 56 min.)
GN269R33 2003
Summary: Three part series. Episode 1, The Difference Between Us, explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode 2, The Story We Tell, questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode 3, The House We Live In, focuses on how our institutions shape and create race.

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.

Race is a Four Letter Word (55 min.)
HT1521 .R23543 2006
Summary: "Director Sobaz Benjamin highlights Canadian contradictions and conflicts around race. Heroically, he exposes himself, too: a black man who grew up hating himself, trying to bleach his skin with chemicals, and then struggling to appreciate the meaning of his culture and heritage as an ’Afro-Saxon’ Briton, then Grenadian and now Haligonian-Nova Scotian-Canadian. We also meet a white man who is culturally and psychologically black, a black woman who wants to be considered iconically Canadian, another black woman who retreats to England rather than continue to face Canada’s racial cold war" -- Container.

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.

The Red String (25 min.)
HV875.58.C6 R43 2005
Summary: Four American mothers, all of whom adopted baby girls from China, reflect on the joys and difficulties of their situations.

El Regreso de un Borreguero = A Sheepherder's Homecoming (40 min.)
HD5855 .M66 1996
Summary: Follows a Mexican sheepherder whose solitary existence in the United States is juxtaposed with his homecoming in Mexico.

Revolution ’67 (89 min.)
HV6481.N5 R48 2007
Summary: "Focuses on the explosive urban rebellion which erupted in Newark, New Jersey, in July 1967; a tragedy caused by similar problems that sparked race riots across America... Takes viewers on a daily chronicle of events, including the calling-in of the State Police and National Guard, their occupation of the city and use of unnecessary firepower. Final toll : 26 dead" -- Container.

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.

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow ( 4 videocassettes,56 min. each)
E185.61 .R57 2002
Summary: The rise and fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the "Jim Crow" system originated and developed. program 1. Promises betrayed (1865-1896) program 2. Fighting back (1896-1917) program 3. Don't shout too soon (1917-1940) program 4. Terror and triumph (1940-1954)

Revolution ’67 (89 min.)
HV6481.N5 R48 2007
Summary: "Focuses on the explosive urban rebellion which erupted in Newark, New Jersey, in July 1967; a tragedy caused by similar problems that sparked race riots across America... Takes viewers on a daily chronicle of events, including the calling-in of the State Police and National Guard, their occupation of the city and use of unnecessary firepower. Final toll : 26 dead" -- Container.

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.

The Samurai (52 min.)
DS827.S3 S35 2000
Summary: This documentary explores Japan's history in which Samurai culture became the core of Japanese values. The film illustrates the Samurai's martial traditions and the manifestations of its ties to the Zen principles of respect, purity, and composure. In Japan, there is still a great deal of admiration for the Samurai and their rigid code of honor. Much more than their role as warriors, they represent the very roots of Japanese civilization.

Savoring the World Series (13 videocassettes, 26 min. each)
GN407 .S28 2000
Summary: Savoring the World Series is a journey of discovery in the rich realms of other lands, cultures and people. Each of the 13 episodes explores a unique interplay of geography, history, and culture (art, architecture, music, religion), and colorful cuisine.
Pt.1: Kerala, the Land of Spices and Coconuts
Pt.2: The Crossroads of Lebanon
Pt.3: Morocco, The Jewel Of The Maghreb
Pt.4: Languedoc, France, The Cradle Of My Being
Pt.5: Andalucia, a Green Heaven On Earth
Pt.6: Oaxaca, Land of the Seven Sauces
Pt.7: Hanoi and the Red River Plain
Pt.8: Kent & the South East, The Garden of England
Pt.9: Thailand, Land of Smiles
Pt.10: Bahia, The Soul of Brazil
Pt.11: New Orleans, The City on the Bend of the River
Pt.12: Jamaica, Green Island, Black Skin, Golden Sun
Pt.12: Kyushu, Japan's Southern Bounty

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.

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (90 min.)
KF224.S34S363 2001
Summary: Examines the case of the Scottsboro boys: In March 1931, two white women made an accusation that they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens drew North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yielded two momentous Supreme Court decisions and gave birth to the civil rights movement.

Self Respect, Self defense, and Self determination : Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver in Conversation (72 min.)
E185.96 .S374 2004
Summary: Two black women discuss their experiences in the American civil rights movement (Mabel R. Williams, widow of Robert F. Williams) and the Black Panthers (Kathleen Cleaver).

Sentimental Imperialists (58 min)
DS518.1 .P33 1992 no.9
Summary: Examines the stereotypic attitudes of Westerners towards Asia from 1776 to the present. Presents specific case studies of the U.S. relationships with China and the Philippines. (from The Pacific Century series)

Separate Lives, Broken Dreams: The Saga of Chinese Immigration (49 min.)
JV6483 .S47 1999
Summary: This program gives an in-depth look at the decisions behind and the consequences that followed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred Chinese from emigrating to the U.S. for 87 years. It examines a period in U.S. history embattled with labor disputes, scapegoating and immigration issues. Personal interviews and archival footage illustrate how families were either kept together or tragically torn apart, and how this affected generations of Chinese and Chinese Americans.

Shadows And Whispers: The Struggle Of North Korea's Refugees (52 min.)
HV640.5.K67 S53 2000
Summary: Documentary, filmed in the northeast mountains of China, that examines the desperate circumstances of North Korean refugees who have illegally crossed the border into China to escape famine conditions which have existed in North Korea since 1995. As many as 800,000 have crossed into China in search of food, most soon returning to their own country. Those who have chosen to stay endure dire conditions, forced to hide in caves, under floorboards, in basements, or on the streets.

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.

Shepherd's Pie & Sushi (45 min.)
F1035.J3 S54 1996
Summary: As a result of her participation in the film The War between us, a CBC production about the Japanese internment during World War II, actress Mieko Ouchi begins to explore the history of Japanese Canadians and discovers her own family's story. Includes clips from The War Between Us.

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.

Silent Choices (60 min.)
HQ767.5.U5 S45 2007
Summary: Illustrates the abortion issue through the lives of African American women, with both interviews and dramatic content. Features the personal experiences of several such women, some of whom chose to have abortions, and some who are staunchly pro-life. The film also brings in others active in the African American community on abortion issues, as well as juxtaposing African American viewpoints to those of white Americans, all combined and contrasted with the larger economic, political, and social pressures that are faced by the African-American community in general.

Simple Justice (133 min.)
PN1992.8.F5 S557 1993
Summary: Docudrama recounts the remarkable legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

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.

The Slanted Screen (62 min.)
PN1995.9.A78 S52 2006
Summary: "Explores the portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experiences of actors who have had to struggle against ethnic stereotyping and limiting roles. The film presents a critical examination of Hollywood’s image-making machine, through a fascinating parade of 50 film clips spanning a century." -- Container.

Slave Reparations (52min.)
E185.89.R45 S43 2004
Summary: Academics and civic leaders discuss the issue of payment of descendants of slaves, giving reasons why reparations should be paid and addressing a number of objections that are often raised.

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.

Smart Black People: (Revisit the 80’s) (57 min.)
E185.615 .S575 2006
Summary: Two panel discussions with African American pundits, who discuss African American life from 1980 to the present. Panelists include prominent filmmakers, musicians, emcees, writers, scholars, and businesspeople.
Notes: Barry Michael Cooper, Trey Ellis, Lynell George, Nelson George, Reggie Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin, Kool Moe Dee, Marcus Miller, Russell Simmons, Bill Stephney, Greg Tate, Michele Wallace.
Notes: Recorded in the winter of 2004 in Harlem, NYC at the Schomburg Library for Research in Black Culture & in Beverly Hills, Calif. at the Creative Arts Agency.

A Southern Town (46 min.)
F349.J13 S68 2004
Summary: Discussion by black and white civil rights activists from Jackson, Mississippi, about the struggle for civil rights in that city and the changes in race relations that have taken place since the early 1960s.

Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders (61min.)
E185.86 .S736 2002
Summary: This documentary presents original interviews with women who were active in the Civil Rights movement: Unita Blackwell, a sharecropper turned activist, who became Mississippi's first female Black mayor; Mae Bertha Carter, a mother of 13, whose children became the first to integrate the Drew County schools against dangerous opposition; White student activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland who attended an all Black university; Annie Devine and Victoria Gray Adams, who, along with Fannie Lou Hamer, stepped up and challenged the Democratic Party and President Johnson at the 1964 Convention.

Starting Over: Japanese Americans after the War (57 min.)
D769.8.A6 S73 1997
Summary: Documents the struggle of Japanese Americans as they resettled throughout the U.S. following their incarceration in internment camps during World War II.

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.

The Stolen Eye (51 min.)
BF575.P9 S76 2002
Summary: Jane Elliott performs her famous blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment with a group of white and Aborigine adults in Australia. The government forcibly removed children of Aboriginal parents in order to make the whole race extinct, and the experiment illustrates what happens when the tables are turned and the whites become the victim of this blatant discrimination.

Stolen Ground (44 min.)
E184.O6 L44 1998
Summary: Six Asian-American men meet over dinner and share their experiences and perspectives of racism in the United States.

The Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston (52 min.)
PS3561.I52 Z467 2002
Summary: Maxine Hong Kingston, in conversation with Bill Moyers, talks about her writing, her published works, and the interaction of Chinese and American consciousness.

Strange Spirit: One Country's Occupation (40 min.)
DS786 .S77 1998
Summary: A film chronicling the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet from the first battles in 1950 to the present day. Includes interviews with Tibetan exiles including soldiers who describe the fall of the capital city of Lhasa and how they smuggled the Dalai Lama across the Himalayas into India. Tibet's "warrior nun", Ani Pachen, describes her 21-year imprisonment while other former prisoners describe executions, mass graves and suicides during their years of incarceration.

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.

A Tattoo on My Heart: Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 (57 min.)
E99.O3 T37 2004
Summary: Tells the story of the Wounded Knee Incident, the 71-day occupation of the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota by Oglala Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and political activists representing the American Indian Movement.

Teens in Between (84 min.)
JV7109 .T44 2002
Summary: Follows five recent immigrant teens from four countries through a year in their lives at Annandale High School in northern Virginia.

This Little Utopia (38 min.)
LC214.323.N4 T55 1993
Summary: Children discover the exciting differences in their racial and cultural backgrounds at a multicultural elementary school in New York City. The Manhattan Country School was founded in 1966 for children between four and fourteen.

The Trials of Darryl Hunt (107 min.)
KF9756 .T75 2007
Summary: Documents a 1984 rape/murder case in which a 19-year-old African-American, Darryl Hunt, was wrongfully accused and imprisoned. Utilizing archival footage and interviews, the filmmakers capture the judicial and emotional reponses of those involved with the case, and the questions and issues raised by this miscarriage of justice which caused Hunt to spend almost 20 years behind bars.

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.

Two Tales of Turmeric Border Marks (25 min)
HN730.5 .T86 2000
Summary: An experimental documentary taking place in modern Seoul, Korea, where an intersection becomes two stories of migration, globalization, hybrid identity, cracked mirrors, and turmeric (a yellow spice powder). A young Korean-American college student voyages back to the motherland where she meets South Asian migrant workers. These parallel stories illuminate and question our assumptions of identity and culture, as well as power and resistance. Through interviews, spoken word, super-8 imagery, and a bizarre Bangladesh wedding scene over a speaker-phone, we witness a changing world, and a twist to the term, "post-modern".

Two Towns of Jasper (85min.)
HV6534.J363T866 2004
Summary: A documentary about the trials of the three men implicated in the murder of James Byrd, Jr. Byrd was beaten, chained to a pickup truck, and dragged to death in Jasper, Tex. on June 7, 1998. Through this film examines the effect that the murder and the trials had on the townspeople and race relations within the town. Black townspeople were filmed and interviewed by a Black crew and Whites by a White crew.

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (75 min.)
E444 .U53 2003
Summary: When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record.

Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in Canada (52 min.)
F1035.C5 U53 1997
Summary: An amazing tale of courageous women who left behind their families, knowing they would never see them again. It is the heart-wrenching odyssey of girls who were shipped off to the New World to marry men they had never met.

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (236 min.)
Summary: A four-hour documentary series arguing that "health and longevity are correlated with socioeconomic status, people of color face an additional health burden, and our health and well-being are tied to policies that promote economic and social justice. Each of the half-hour program segments, set in different racial/ethnic communities, provides a deeper exploration of the ways in which social conditions affect population health and how some communities are extending their lives be improving them" -- Container insert. In sickness and in wealth: "What connections exist between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin color? Follow four individuals from different walks of life to see how their position in society, shaped by social policies and public priorities, affects their health" -- Container insert.
• When the Bough Breaks: "African American infant mortality rates remain twice as high as for white Americans. African American mothers with college degrees or higher face the same risk of having low birth-weight babies as white women who haven’t finished high school. How might the chronic stress of racism over the life course become embedded in our bodies and increase risks?" -- Container insert.
• Becoming American: "Recent Mexican immigrants tend to be healthier than the average American. But those health advantages erode the longer they’ve been here. What causes health to worsen as immigrants become American? What can we all learn about improved well-being from new immigrant communities?" -- Container insert.
• Bad Sugar: "O’odham Indians, living on reservations in southern Arizona, have perhaps the highest rate of Type 2 diabetes in the world. Some researchers see this as the literal ’embodiment’ of decades of poverty, oppression, and loss. A new approach suggests that communities may regain control over their health if they can regain control over their futures" -- Container insert.
• Place Matters: "Increasingly, recent Southeast Asian immigrants, along with Latinos, are moving into long-neglected African American urban neighborhoods, and now their health is being eroded as a result. What policies and investment decisions create living environments that harm, or enhance, the health of residents? What actions can make a difference?" -- Container insert.
• Collateral Damage: "In the Marshall Islands, local populations have been displaced from their traditional way of life by the American military presence and globalization. Now they must contend with the worst of the ’developing’ and industrialized worlds: infectious diseases such as tuberculosis due to crowded living conditions, and extreme poverty and chronic disease, stemming in part from the stress of dislocation and loss" -- Container insert
• Not Just a Paycheck: "Residents of Western Michigan struggle against depression, domestic violence and higher rates of heart disease and diabetes after the largest refrigerator factory in the country shuts down. Ironically, the plant is owned by a company in Sweden, where mass layoffs, far from devastating lives, are relatively benign because of government policies that protect and retrain workers" -- Container insert.

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (68 min.)
E185.97.T548 U58 2006
Summary: A biography of Emmett Louis Till, an African-American teenager who was murdered for whistling at a white women in Mississippi in 1955. Chronicles director Beauchamp’s decade-long effort to determine the true identities of Till’s killers.

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 Vanishing Black Male (75 min.)
E185.86 .V365 2005
Summary: Actor Melvin Jackson, Jr. interviews a variety of people in order to understand why the ratio of black men to black women has been steadily decreasing in African-American communities

Voices of Memory (57min.)
PN6101 .V66 2003
Summary: Li-Young Lee and Gerald Stern offer poems that reveal the deep power of memory to inform and illuminate immediate experience. Stern's Jewish heritage provides him with the direction to resurrect and reconstruct past experiences. Lee's poetry reflects his struggle with his Chinese heritage since he has never lived in Chinese society. Includes interviews with the poets by Bill Moyers.

Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara (52 min)
HN120.T36 B74 2001
Summary: Tells the story of the Tarahumara of northern Mexico who are surviving despite the drug cartels of central Mexico who have illegally taken over their aboriginal land, deforested without permission, planted massive quantities of marijuana and opium, and forced the people to cultivate the drug fields.

Wataridori: Birds of Passage (38min.)
E184.J3 W38 2004
Summary: This documentary uses interviews and vintage photographs to explore turn-of-the-century Japanese immigration to America. Three Issei (first generation Japanese Americans) discuss common experiences such as the Depression, prejudice, the World War II internment of to the Manzanar concentration camp.

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.

We Served with Pride: The Chinese American Experience in WW II (57 min.)
D810.C45 W42 2000
Summary: The story of Chinese Americans who have served in the U.S. military, especially during World War II. Twenty eight men and women share their stories, representing the 20,000 Chinese Americans who served their country in a wide variety of wartime assignments. Also briefly covers the involvement of Chinese Americans in the American Civil War, Spanish American War and World War I.

Wet Sand: Voices from L.A. Ten Years Later
(60 min)
F869.L89 K672 2003
Summary: Kim-Gibson’s follow-up to "Sa-i-gu" revisits Los Angeles to question how much has changed in the ten years following the 1992 riots. The program consists of interviews with a multi-ethnic set of first-hand witnesses, probing into the racial and economic issues that continue to affect the region today. This documentary purports that these issues may also be applied to American society as a whole.

What’s Race Got to Do with It? (49 min.)
LC1099.3 .W473 2006
Summary: This program "chronicles the experiences of a new generation of college students, in this case over the course of 16 weeks of intergroup dialogue on the U.C. Berkeley campus. As they confront themselves and each other about race, they discover they often lack awareness of how different their experience of campus life is from their peers, to the detriment of an inclusive campus climate" -- Container.

When You're Smiling (60 min.)
D769.8.A6 W44 2002
Summary: An account of the resettlement of the Japanese American community after internment during Word War II, told through the Janice Tanaka's own family's struggle during the post-camp years. The community seemed to put their incarceration behind them but in reality, class, race, religion, stereotyping, lack of ethnic values, emotional and familial distance caused serious identity crises.

Where Strangers Become Neighbours: The Story of the Collingwood Neighborhood House and the Integration of Immigrants in Vancouver (50 min.)
HM683 .W54 2007
Summary: "Explores the contemporary global social issue [of immigration] by looking at one neighbourhood in the city of Vancouver. Collingwood, a predominantly Anglo-European community until the 1980s, has been transformed by the arrival of large numbers of Asians, Africans and Latin-Americans. A neighbourhood that just 20 years ago was locking its doors, afraid of change, and telling immigrants to go back where they came from, is now a welcoming place for everyone. How did this happen? How did strangers become neighbours?" -- Container

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.

The Women Outside: Korean Women and the U.S. Military (52 min.)
HQ1765.5.W68 1995
Summary: Documentary about young South Korean women who work in sex related enterprises adjacent to American military bases in South Korea. Also explores the lives of Korean women who came to the United States as wives of American servicemen.

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.

Worlds Apart: A Four-part Series on Cross-cultural Healthcare 4 videocassettes (48 min.)
RA418.5.T73 W67 2003
Summary: Four-part series that follows patients and families facing critical medical decisions as they navigate their way through the health care system. Provides a look at a variety of patients’ cultures and the culture of medicine. Attempts to raise awareness about the role that sociocultural barriers play in patient-provider communication and in the provision of healthcare services for culturally and ethnically diverse patients. Contents: [pt. 1]. Mohammad Kochi’s story (14 min.) -- [pt. 2]. Justine Christena’s story (11 min.) -- [pt. 3]. Robert Phillip’s story (10 min.) -- [pt. 4]. Alicia Mercado’s story (13 min.).

¡Yo soy Boricua, pa’que tu lo sepas! = I’m Boricua, Just So You Know! (85 min.)
F1958 .Y6 2007
Summary: "Explores the complex history between Puerto Rico and the United States... the themes of family, language, and racism are put into historical perspective as [the film] uncover[s] the side of Puerto Rico absent from U.S. history books" -- Container.

Zoot Suit Riots (60 min.)
HV6481.L7 Z66 2002
Summary: Racial tensions between the Anglo and Mexican American communities in Los Angeles, California erupted into violence after the conviction of Henry "Hank" Leyvas and seventeen other Mexican American youths for the murder of José Díaz in what was perceived as an unfair trial in 1943. Lorena Encinas, a witness to the murder, kept the real killer's identity a secret until the end of her life. Prominent members of the Los Angeles community worked to fund an appeal for the defendents, even as battles between US Naval personnel and Mexican Americans rocked L.A.'s barrios. Surviving family members of the seventeen convicts, riot witnesses and members of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee tell the story of the riots, which is highlighted by photographs of the riots, the trial and their participants.

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