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Tracy Heather Strain
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (appoximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century. She gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, but Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their...
2) Adrift
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min., 20 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Curran journeys into his past in Alaska and Cape Cod to trace how he and his siblings have tried to live up to their late father's expectations. Through this meditative portrait of loss in an Irish American family, Curran directly addresses his personal battles with fear, risk, success, and failure, and how the death of his father affected him, his family, and his career to the point of dysfunction.
3) American Oz
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 110 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
L. Frank Baum was 44 when he published the first book about Oz, having spent most of his life reinventing himself with each new career in pursuit of the American Dream. When in Chicago, his observations of an uncertain nation during the Gilded Age informed his magical tale of survival, adventure, and self-discovery which went on to become a quintessential classic.
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
©2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
This series challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups, telling an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs. Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been...
