Black is-- black ain't [videorecording] : a personal journey through black identity / Independent Television Service ; Signifyin' Works ; producer/director, Marlon T. Riggs ; co-producer, Nicole Atkinson ; co-director/editor, Christiane Badgley.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Publisher:
California Newsreel,
Copyright Date:
c1995
Description:
1 videocassette (88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in + 1 facilitator's guide (15 p. ; 22 cm.)
Facilitator's guide includes program notes by Patricia A. Turner and Herman Gray, discussion questions by Carolyn Martin Shaw, and a biography of Marlon Riggs. Facilitator's guide includes bibliographical references. Performers: Essex Hemphill, Larry Duckette, Wayson R. Jones, Linda Tillery, Wayne T. Corbitt, Djola Bernard Branner, Eric Gupton, Angela Davis, Yvette Flunder, Marlon T. Riggs.
Summary:
American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. Equally devastating, the late Marlon Riggs argued, have been the definitions of "blackness" African Americans impose upon one another which contain and reduce the black experience. In this film, Riggs meets a cross-section of African Americans grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contradictory definitions of blackness.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)36053370 (OCoLC)36263286
Locations:
UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.