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1. 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.

2. Hip hop SP

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Filho,Francisco (Author), Martinelli,Mirella (Author), Coutinho,Marcelo (Author), and Abujamra,Andre (Author)
Format:: Video/DVD
Language:: Portuguese
Publication Date:: 1990
Published:: New York, NY: Third World Newsreel
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 videocassette (11 min., 12 sec.), Examines the experiences of Sao Paulo's black community through their hip hop music, dance and grafitti.

3. I is a long memoried woman

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Solomon,Frances-Anne (Director), Forbes,Leonie (Narrator), Andoh,Adjoa (Narrator), Eusebia (Dancer), Odlum,Malisha (Dancer), and Wright,Steve (Dancer)
Format:: Video/DVD
Publication Date:: 1993?
Published:: New York, NY: Women Make Movies
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Originally produced as documentary film in 1990., 1 videocassette (50 min.), Based on a collection of poems by Guyanese British writer, Grace Nichols, this program chronicles the history of slavery through the eyes of Caribbean women. Presented through a combination of monologue, dance and song.

4. The Garifuna journey

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Leland,Andrea E. (Director) and Berger,Kathy L. (Director)
Format:: Video/DVD
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Hohokus, NJ: New Day Films
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 videocassette (46 min., 30 sec.) + 1 study guide (49 p.), Genocide, exile, Diaspora and persecution did not break the spirit of the Garifuna people. Descendants of African and Carib-Indian ancestors, the Garifuna fought to maintain their homeland on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. The Garifuna resisted slavery. For this love of freedom, they were exiled from St. Vincent to Roatan in Honduras by the British in 1797. Despite exile and subsequent Diaspora, their traditional culture survives today. It is a little known story that deserves its place in the annals of the African Diaspora. In first person Garifuna voices, this documentary presents the history, the language, food, music, dance and spirituality of the Garifuna culture. It is a celebratory documentary, with engaging scenes of fishing, cooking, dancing, cassava preparation, thatching a temple, spiritual ritual, ritual music and dance all demonstrating the Garifuna link to the Carib-African past.

5. É minha cara = That's my face: a film

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Harris,Thomas Allen (Director)
Format:: Video/DVD
Publication Date:: 2003
Published:: New York, NY: Wellspring Media
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Originally issued as a motion picture in 2001., 1 videodisc (60 min.), Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris travels to Africa and Brazil in search of his spiritual ancestors.

6. World Film Fest is a work in need of progress

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Grant,Natasha (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Oct 7-Oct 13, 2004
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Amsterdam News
Journal Title Details:: 41 : 21
Notes:: Human Rights in Haiti: A Work in Progress" is a 22-minute abridged Cliffs Notes version of the history of Haitian unrest. Though it is beautifully edited and has some rather moving imagery, the film ends suddenly, which quite frankly took the audience off guard. During the Q&A session following the films, the un-packed audience of 10 people (which included the filmmakers) had a few burning questions, some of which were not completely answered. "Who's the opponent? Who's the evil person here?" "It doesn't make that clear," "There are things that aren't really clear here" were just a few questions the audience members asked.

7. 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.

8. Rise Up wows audience at Lincoln Centre premiere

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gordon,Sharon (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Mar 11-Mar 17, 2010
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. E6
Notes:: Rise Up channels the spirit of the elders with cameos by Fred Locks, Sly Dunbar. Robbie Shakespeare, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Toots Hibberts and Brushy One String among others. Industry stalwarts like producers Mikey Bennett and Carlo Less are among those narrating the story which highlights the unique musical quality of Jamaicans.

9. Dr. Gates on His Dad and His New PBS Series

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Williams,Kam (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Apr 28-May 4, 2011
Published:: Los Angeles, CA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sentinel
Journal Title Details:: 17 : B3-B.3
Notes:: President Obama eventually intervened to defuse the tension by inviting both the professor and the arresting officer to the White House for a glass of beer by Rose Garden. Prior to the media circus surrounding that "Beer Summit," Dr. Gates was already well known as a tenured Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research.

10. Dr. Henry Louis Gates' latest documentary to look at Black in Latin America

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Mar 24-Mar 30, 2011
Published:: Jacksonville, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Jacksonville Free Press
Journal Title Details:: 23 : 8
Notes:: Despite their great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain popular, cross-over musical forms. [Henry Louis Gates, Jr.] sets out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries acknowledge-or deny-their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Professor Gates unveils the history of the African presence in the countries through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics and religion, but also through the presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view.

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