The Docuseek African-American Studies Collection
The African-American Studies Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of over 80 films focused on the social, political, and cultural history and present experience of African Americans.
The Docuseek African-American Studies Collection includes the following titles:
The first major documentary biography of civil rights hero, congressional leader and champion for human rights, whose unwavering fight for justice spanned over fifty years.
Part of the mediamaking movement that first gave centrality to the voices and experiences of African American women during the late Seventies and early Eighties, these two re-releases – KILLING TIME and FANNIE’S FILM – are no less groundbreaking today.
Follows one of the greatest Canadian baseball players of all time, Ferguson Jenkins, through the 1972-1973 major league season.
Noted filmmaker St. Clair Bourne follows an African-American minister in training as he travels through the South.
Effectively highlights with familiarity and humor the disturbing realization of how Black characters and white characters still interact on screen, under Hollywood’s eternally backwards eye.
Examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today.
Over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, adult literacy programs, and job training centers discuss their experiences of poverty.
An exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson.
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