Collection: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) / Format: Video/DVD / Subject Term: Blacks / Within Last x Years: within 25 Years

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lamb,Brian (Author) and Robinson,Eugene (Author)
Format:: Video/DVD
Publication Date:: 1999
Published:: West Lafayette, IN: C-SPAN
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:: 1 videocassette (59 min.)
Notes:: Originally broadcast on the television program Booknotes on November 7, 1999. Brian Lamb interviews Eugene Robinson about his book Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race. The book examines race relations in the United States and much of the Western Hemisphere by looking at Mr. Robinson's personal experiences in the U.S. and Brazil, where he noted that racism is rare but inequality still exists.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sporn,Pam (Director)
Format:: Video/DVD
Language:: English and Spanish.
Publication Date:: 2000
Published:: New York, NY: Third World Newsreel
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 videocassette (57 min.), Highlights the historical journey of an Afro-Cuban family, from Jamaica, to Cuba, to the Bronx, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe. Diana, Ruben, and Pablo reveal stories of growing political awareness, overcoming the dangers of the streets, and coming into their own as Afro-Latinos.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: McCarthy,Joe (Author)
Format:: Video/DVD
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Pub Co.
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 DVD (63 min), The Afro-Cuban Big Band Play-Along DVD gives the drummer/percussionist an opportunity to play contemporary Afro-Cuban music in a big band setting. The DVD features play-along tracks (minus the drums), an E-book containing the complete charts and examples demonstrated on the DVD, and bonus tracks of additional tunes from Afro-Bop Alliance.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rolando,Gloria (Author), Grupo de Video "Imagenes del Caribe" en colaboración con "Videoteca del Sur" (Editor), Monse Duane, Sonia Boggiano, Zoraima Segón, Renny Arozarena, Luz Ma. Collazo, Jorge Prieto, Aimeé Despaigne, Nora Rodríguez, Manuel Oña (Series Editor), and Maria Josefa Gómez (Translator)
Format:: Video/DVD
Publication Date:: 2001
Published:: Arlington, MA: AfroCubaWeb.com
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:: DVD video 1 videodisc (49 min.)
Notes:: This drama follows a young Cuban woman investigating her family history, and discovering disturbing revelations about the 1912 genocide, in which over 6,000 members of the Independents of Color were killed by the Cuban Army

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Giral,Sergio (Director)
Format:: Video/DVD
Language:: Spanish and English subtitles
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: Harbor Islands, FL: Giral Media Production
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Originally released in 1990 as a motion picture. Based on the theatrical work: Maria Antonia by Eugenio Hernandez Espinosa., 1 videodisc (100 min.), A story of love, passion, resentment, and revenge set in pre-revolutionary working-class Cuba. Maria Antonio, in a role based on Oshun, the love goddess in the religion of the African Yoruba people, is driven to a crime of passion.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Adams,Leonard (Director)
Format:: Video/DVD
Language:: In English; interviews in Portuguese
Publication Date:: 2005
Published:: New York: Moving Eye Productions
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: videorecording; 1 videodisc (75 min.), Provides a portrait of rural communities in Brazil that were either founded by runaway slaves or began from abandoned plantations. This type of community is known as a quilombo, from an Angolan word that means "encampment." As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Shinkai,Rubens (Author)
Format:: Video/DVD
Publication Date:: 200-?
Published:: Belém, Par., [Brazil]: Digital Produções
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 videocassette (ca. 20 min.), Employing footage shot between December 5 and 9, 2003, this documentary looks at the history, life, traditions, and celebrations of the black population of the municipalities of Baião and Mocajuba, located in the Brazilian state of Pará.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Santos,Murillo (Director)
Format:: Video/DVD
Language:: Potuguese
Publication Date:: 2003?
Published:: Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 videocassette (45 min.), Documentary on the rural communities in Alcântara, Brazil (in the state of Maranhão), descendants of the quilombos founded by Blacks who had escaped from slavery. The documentary explores the communities' historical narratives, rituals, festivals, use of land and natural resources, and describes the displacement of families for the construction and expansion of the Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara (a launching base for rockets and satellites).

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