Grippando, James
Summary: "When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the preeminent black fraternity at Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian swamps of the Suwannee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control. Contending with rising political...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRISummary: Directed by Sindi Gordon, this film explores reverse racism, offering a contemporary view of two populations often overlooked in the race dialogue: Native Americans and native Hawaiians. In South Dakota, three generations of Lakota families consider their past and their future. Meanwhile, in Hawaii, beginning in the 1990s, lawsuits challenged the rights of natives to run schools and housing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This program explores racial issues in Siler City, North Carolina, including: what are the effects of rapid change in racial demographics? What happens when white culture no longer dominates society? Will the future more closely resemble our segregated past, or is the nation experiencing the declining significance of race? Utilizing the writing of Eric Liu (The Accidental Asian: Notes of a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This episode looks at the black/white paradigm in America today. Co-directed by Lulie Haddad and Orlando Bagwell, the program weaves the personal memoirs of John Edgar Wideman (Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race, and Society) and Jane Lazarre (Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: A Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons) with the stories from the staff at King-Drew County Medical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003