Documenting the Black experience : essays on African American history, culture and identity in nonfiction films /

"History taught at the elementary, middle, high school and even college levels often excludes significant events from African American history, such as the murder of Emmett Till or the Ku Klux Klan's murder of four black girls in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham wh...

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Other Authors: Lawrence, Novotny, 1973- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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505 0 |a Introduction / Novotny Lawrence -- Civil rights. The Scottsboro Boys' experiences as resource to create a more perfect union / Joseph l. Smith -- The Clinton 12 and prom night in Mississippi: conversations in integration / Eric Pierson -- A national concern: remembering and teaching the death of Emmett Till / Kevin E. Grimm -- Fear factor: when black equality is framed as militant winsome / Chunnu-Brayda and Travis D. Boyce -- Sports. A "perpetual threat": unforgivable blackness and Jack Johnson as a transmedia sports icon / Michael Graves -- From Compton to center court: Venus and Serena and the black female experience in professional tennis / Novotny Lawrence -- Electronic media immortalizing Dorothy Dandridge in documentary, African American press and mainstream press / Charlene Regester -- "Rated R because it's real": discourses of authenticity in Wattstax / Mike Phillips -- A glance at her story: black female documentarians navigating beyond the Theresa / Renee White, Sara Tekle and Melanie Shaw -- Documenting grassroots history as a means to social change: 778 bullets, community engagement and the legacy of rural civil rights / Angela J. Aguayo -- And beyond: the contemporary black struggle. Sundown nation: living in the aftermath of an American Holocaust / David Rossiaky -- Portrait of Jason: a reappraisal / Gerald R. Butters Jr -- Dancing as voice: krumping and clowning in rize as black vernacular rhetoric / Joshua Daniel Phillips -- Gender, the streets and violence: Ameena Matthews and violence interruptions in the interrupters / Ashley Farmer. 
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