Racism
“A Class Divided”
In this Frontline video produced by PBS, a teacher leads her class of
third grade students in a dramatic exercise in discrimination. Fifteen
years later, the students return to reflect on the experience and its
effect on their lives. The exercise is replicated with prison populations
and corrections personnel, with potentially life-changing consequences.
(57 minutes)
“Beyond the News: Racism”
This video goes beyond the statistics and beyond the impersonal to real
situations: It offers in-depth understandings and questions to stimulate
discussion, all from a faith perspective. It explores prejudice and white
privilege and how they affect jobs, expectations in education, the
judicial system, and the church.
(25 minutes)
“Blood in the Face”
This video focuses on a day in the collective life of American neo-Nazis
and other racists. The filmmakers take an intentionally leisurely
conversational tack with the supremacists who have assembled for lectures
and workshops on everything from how to effectively spread their message
of hate via home videos to moving all like-minded “white Christians”
to the northwest. Interviews seem evenly divided between young people in
various forms of Nazi garb and older people who have lived a lifetime of
suspicion and hatred. (78 minutes)
“Blue-Eyed”
In this follow-up to “A Class Divided,” adults are challenged to
confront their own racism by experiencing the effects of racism suffered
by people of color every day in the United States. Also, 30 years after
the original classroom exercise, we see the effect that confronting racism
has had on the life of the teacher involved, as well as the lives of her
family members. A study/discussion guide accompanies this video. (90
minutes)
“Martin’s Lament: Religion and Race in America”
Martin Luther King Jr. called 11 o’clock on Sunday mornings “the most
segregated hour in America.” King believed that the churches should play
a fundamental role in shaping the morality and changing the prejudices of
the nation. This program examines the issue of religion and race by
visiting four different churches, speaking with experts and with members
of each congregation. It includes a visit to a church which holds separate
services for whites and blacks, conversations with a black couple who
attend a predominantly white church and a white woman who attends a black
church, and a look at an interracial church which has created a remarkable
bond among its congregation. (60 minutes)
“Matters
of Race”
This series combines past memories and present day realities to
challenge audiences to reconsider the relationship between race and power,
the architecture of race and how it has stagnated the American social
movement throughout the 20th Century.
Each of the four one-hour programs looks not only into the personal
experiences and relationships that affect this crucial debate, but also
the institutions and structures that sometimes make it seem so difficult
to change language, ideas and practices.
(4 programs on 1 tape)
- The Divide
(1 hour)
- Race Is, Race Ain’t
(1 hour)
- We’re Still Here?
(1 hour)
- Tomorrow’s America (1 hour)
"Mighty Times: The Children's March"
Winner of the 2005 Academy Award® in the Documentary Short Subject
category, "Mighty Times: The Children's March" depicts the
spirit of the era and the tumultuous events surrounding the May 2, 1963
march, wherein thousands of schoolchildren protested against segregation
in Birmingham, Alabama. An inspirational film with the power to educate.
(40 minutes/2005)
"Mighty Times: The
Legacy of Rosa Parks"
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks sparked a revolution by sitting
still. Her simple act of defiance against racial segregation on city buses
inspired the African American community of Montgomery, Alabama to unite
against segregationists who ran city hall. Over the course of a year, the
Montgomery Bus Boycott would test the endurance of the peaceful
protestors, overturn an unjust law and create a legacy of mighty times
that continues to inspire those who work for justice today. (40 minutes)
"Myth of Race"
This video, produced by the Mennonite Central Committee, uses
computer-based images, animation, narration and music to expose the myth
of race. It demonstrates how race sets us up to think in terms of biology
and genetics and ignore the realities of power and privilege. (19 minutes)
“Race:
The Power of an Illusion”
The division of the world's peoples into distinct
groups - "red," "black," "white" or
"yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches,
so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of
its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new three-hour
series by California Newsreel claims. Race - The Power of an Illusion
questions the very idea of race as biology, suggesting that a belief in
race is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the
earth.
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Tape 1- The Difference Between Us examines the contemporary
science - including genetics - that challenges our common sense
assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four
fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.
(56 minutes)
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Tape 2- The Story We Tell uncovers the roots of the race concept in
North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it
came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an
eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American
social inequalities as "natural." (56 minutes)
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Tape 3- The House We Live In asks, If race is
not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in
nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social
institutions "make" race by disproportionately channeling
resources, power, status and wealth to white people.
(56 minutes)
“Skin Deep”
This video takes us on a journey into the hearts and minds of young people
as they struggle with their country’s racial legacy. With remarkable
openness and candor, a diverse group of college students from across the
country come together to share their anger, pain, confusion and hope with
each other and with us. This video encourages self-examination and
dialogue as it takes us beneath the surface of America’s racial divide.
(53 minutes)
“Something Other Than Other” DVD
Filmmakers and new parents Jerry and Andrea talk about
discrimination, their multiracial son and their dream of an identity for
him beyond the “Other” check box.
(9 minutes/ Iron
Weed Film Club)
“The Secret History of the Ku Klux Klan”
Authors David Chambers and Wyn Craig Wade trace the history of the KKK
from its birth in 1866 to the present day. Rare footage captures the
Klan’s disturbing rituals and rites. From the ashes of the Civil War
through the 1990s, this video documents the Klan’s institutionalized
hatred, violence and ignorance. (100 minutes)
“The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America”
“He didn’t look like one of us.” To many residents of Atlanta in
1913, this was reason enough to suspect Leo Frank of murder. For some, it
was reason enough to hang him. It’s a story as old as humanity —
pointing the finger at those who don’t look or think or act like we do.
Produced by three-time Academy Award winner Charles Guggenheim, this video
spans three centuries to examine the ongoing struggle to live up to the
U.S. ideals of liberty, equality and justice for all. Through documentary
footage and eyewitness reports, viewers are given a powerful perspective
on historical events from the ordinary people who lived through them.
(Distributed by the Teaching Tolerance Project of the Southern Poverty Law
Center; with accompanying text, stories, documents and photographs, and
teacher’s guide and lesson plans.) (40 minutes)
“Voices of White Supremacy”
A compilation of video clips from “Blood in the Face.” (18 minutes)
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