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2. Cuban roots/Bronx stories
- 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.
3. Joe Mccarthy's Afro-cuban Big Band Play-along
- 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.
4. Las raíces de mi corazón; The roots of my heart
- 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
5. Maria Antonia
- 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.
6. Quilombo country
- 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.
7. Terra de negro
- 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.
8. Terras de quilombo
- 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).