"Living Black History: How Reimagining the African American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future"

Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 7:00 pm, Fowler Hall, Stewart Center, Purdue University

Dr. Manning Marable

About the Author

Purdue News Release

Barack Obama topic of the vol. 38, nol 1 issue of The Black Scholar

Henry, Charles P., guest editor. "Barack Obama." The Black Scholar.

Obama '08: articulate and clean / Charles P. Henry -- A more perfect union / Sen. Barack Obama -- Obama's edge: understanding nation time / Ronald Walters -- We must lead the world: the Obama Doctrine and the re-branding of U.S. hegemony / Clarence Lusane -- Lest we forget: an open letter to my sisters / Alice Walker -- Intersectionality: race and gender in the presidential nomination campaign / Dianne E. Pinderhughes -- Barack Obama and the complicated boundaries of blackness / Ronald Williams, II. more

"We Are Americans: The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina & the Politics of Language"

Monday, November 10, 2008, 7:00 pm, Fowler Hall, Stewart Center, Purdue University

Dr. Charles P. Henry, Ph.D.

The call for economic justice for Africans and their descendants has long been echoed in the voices of activists, from the period immediately following the enslavement to the present day call for racial reparations. In the epilogue of Long Overdue, Charles P. Henry connects three simple words—”we are Americans” - to the need for a public discourse on reparations.

Several copies of Long Overdue are available at the BCC Library Circulation Desk

About the Author

In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Henry to the National Council for the Humanities for a six-year term. He is the former president of the National Council for Black Studies and former board chair of Amnesty International USA. Henry authored and edited seven books and more than 80 articles and reviews on black politics, public policy and human rights. His other books include "Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other" (1998) and "Foreign Policy and the Black (Inter)national Interest" (2000). He was the Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American History and Politics at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2003 and taught at the University of Tours in France as a Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair in 2006. more

Other resources available in the BCC Library on Katrina are:

The Black Scholar. 2006.

Introduction to The Black Scholar special issue on Hurricane Katrina: high tide of a new racial formation -- The wretched of the Gulf: racism, technological dramas, and Black politics of techonology -- Post-Katrina housing: problems, policies, and prospects for African-Americans in New Orleans -- "Bush doesn't care about Black people" : race, class, and attributions of responsibility in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- Natural versus social phenomena: Cuba and the lessons of Katrina -- Katrina 101: a Black Studies curriculum challenge.

Childs, John Brown. 2005. Hurricane Katrina : response and responsibilities. Santa Cruz, Calif.: New Pacific Press.

The New battle for New Orleans -- Saving America's soul kitchen : how to bring this country together? : listen to the message of New Orleans -- Letter to Mr. Howard Blue -- Making sense of tragedy -- Will the circle be unbroken? : reflections on place, identity, and New Orleans culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- Displacement, gentrification, and the politics of exclusion -- The Poliatrics of Nueva Orleans -- Loss of heritage, discovery of injustice : elders and premature babies -- New Orleans is all of us -- Katrina and social justice -- Cancer Alley and anti-immigrant reaction in the eye of the storm -- Let the people run it! -- New Orleans and the Gulf Region require an "Ethical Reconstruction Commission" -- We have lost our citizenship again : Katrina's aftermath: the new Dred Scott -- Katrina poses the question : what are the duties of governments to their people -- The Tragedy of Katrina : will there be a presidential apology? -- Katrina : giving eyesight to the blind -- Katrina : where the natural and the social meet -- Language matters : Hurricane Katrina and media responsibility -- Katrina's aftermath -- Katrina and the Dutch flood disaster of 1953 -- The Advantages of "higher ground" -- Empower the poor or the fire next time -- Hurricane Katrina : God and social morality -- Thinking for ourselves : fundamental questions -- 'Ike kupaianaha : now that it has been witnessed -- The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina : coming to grips with the US failure -- Hurricane Katrina : recipe for more disaster or hopeful reconstruction? -- Katrina, New Orleans, and intentional neglect -- In our blood, in our bones -- For collective individualism : Katrina's lessons

363.34922 H942 2005

Dyson, Michael Eric. 2006. Come Hell or high water : Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster. New York: Basic Civitas.

363.3480976 D995c 2006

Lee, Spike. 2006. When the levees broke: a requiem in four acts. New York, N.Y.: Home Box Office : HBO Video. videorecording. 3 videodiscs (ca. 256 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceeded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.HBO Documentary Films and 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks present a Spike Lee Film ; producers, Sam Pollard and Spike Lee ; director, Spike Lee.Title from container.Special features: Audio commentaries by Spike Lee; Next movement, Act 5; Water is rising.Interviews: Shelton 'Shakespeare' Alexander, Harry Belafonte, Terence Blanchard, Wilhelmina Blanchard, Kathleen Blanco, Douglas Brinkley.

BCC DVD V.2 7, 8 & 9

V.P. Franklin, editor. "Symposium on Hurricane Katrina and African American students." The Journal of African American History.

Introduction: Hurricane Katrina and African American students -- Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of African American college students: the making of a documentary -- A Katrina recovery initiative: Dillard University student projects, January-July 2006 -- Public schooling in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans: Are charter schools the solutions or part of the problem?

Troutt, David Dante, editor. 2007. After the storm : Black intellectuals explore the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. New York: New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.
edited by David Dante Troutt.ill. ; 20 cm.Part one: Race, poverty, and place. Many thousands gone, again -- Katrina : the American dilemma redux -- Part two: Class, politics, and the politics of race. The persistence of race politics and the restraint of recovery in Katrina's wake -- The real divide -- Part three: Disasters and diaspora. Historicizing Katrina -- Great migrations? -- Part four: Perceiving the image, framing identity, and critiquing "crime". Loot or find : fact or frame? -- While visions of deviance danced in their heads -- Part five: Rights and shared humanities. From wrongs to rights : Hurricane Katrina from a global perspective -- The station.

305.896073076 Af89 2007

Journal of African American Studies

Issue: v.11, no.2, September 2007

Contents: African American and obesity: from explanations to Prevention / Bill Hawkins -- Better health for the Delta. Phase 1: Lincoln Parish African American faith based community profile / Larry Proctor and Davondra I. Williams -- African-American college women's reflections on physical activity involvement during public school years / Jepkorir Rose Chepyator-Thomson, Jared Anthony Russell, and Brian O'Neal Culp -- Glucose tolerance, body stature, and intramuscular fat in African American females / Billy Hawkins, Asharf Gorgey, Richard Williams, and Gary Dudley -- Understanding prostate cancer screenings among African American men: combining the behavioral science and anthropological perspectives / Hung-Yi Lu -- Effectivesness of a modified computer-assisted instructional tool in the dissemination of prostate cancer information to men of African descent through Black churches /R. Eric Weston, Peter J. Weston, Robert F. Futterman, Stephen J. Lepore, Demetrius S. Carolina, John T. Pinto, Michele A. Lang, Rogelio I. Thomas, John J. Cardwell, and Adam P. Gordon.

BCC READS

Brittany Millben

to lead and moderate online discussion of

Quiet Strength: A Memoir by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 21, 23 and 24, 2008
11:00am-3:00 pm
(comments may be sent to the blog at any time)
Black Cultural Center
Purdue University

About the Book

About the Author

Discussion Questions developed by Brittany Millben

What was your overall impression of the book?
BM After reading this book I felt a renewed sense of inspiration and drive to fulfill my dreams and destiny on this earth.

Did reading this book cause you to reflect on your own spirituality? If so, in what way(s)? If not, why?

BM Reading this book definitely caused me to reflect on my own spirituality. After each chapter I challenged myself to reflect on whether or not I was doing all that God called me to do in life and whether or not I was representing Him well to others.

What would you have liked to have read more or less about in this book?

BM I would have liked to have read more about Coach Dungy’s family life and also his own family because I am always fascinated by how family members play such an integral part of one’s achievements and success.

On the inside flap of the book a question is posed, “What does it take to be a modern-day hero?” What is your response to that question having read the book?

BM A modern-day hero is one who strives to better others and the environment around him/her. It is also a person who takes no glory for the selfless acts he/she commits even when there are those that try to praise them or hold them to a higher standard than others.
The title of this book is Quiet Strength; give an example where Coach Tony Dungy demonstrates this kind of strength.

BM Coach Dungy has been a great example of quiet strength; however, a specific instance that stands out for me was when his oldest son, James, passed away in December of 2005. Although it’s clear that Coach Dungy experienced intense pain, grief, and loss he never once allowed it to cause him to be bitter or angry towards God. I found this to be remarkable because not many of us would be able to hold up the way he did under such extreme conditions.

In your opinion, what is the difference, if any, between a role model and a hero?

BM I think that a role model and a hero can be the same if they are always aware of the fact that it is not about them. When individuals start to become too aware of themselves and not of those around them who are affected by their every move, than they become idols. Role models and heroes should inspire others to better themselves as well as be aware that they are constantly being emulated and watched by those who desire someone or something to believe in.

What obstacle(s) that Coach Dungy faced was/were most inspiring to you?

BM Becoming the first African American coach in the NFL to win the Super Bowl was the most inspiring obstacle that Coach Dungy overcame for me. This is because he and his teams had come so close before and had lost many games, but he never gave up on them or their chance at victory. I was also inspired by the fact that as important as football was to him, it was also just a game; his faith and family always came first.
How do you think that Coach Dungy and the Indianapolis Colts winning the Super Bowl has affected how African Americans in the USA view themselves?

BM Seeing Coach Dungy win the Super Bowl definitely gave African Americans a boost of self-confidence and something positive to be proud of as opposed to something to be ashamed of. Many times we are bombarded by news that only highlights the negative actions of African Americans in our cities and our country and so having this news broadcasted gave us all a sense of pride in ourselves.

Do you think that people were offended or inspired by Coach Dungy’s constant reference to the Bible and his faith in God?

BM I think that many people were inspired to know that there is a strong Christian in the professional sports arena who is not afraid to speak up for his faith and belief in God. I know I was inspired.

What is one positive thing that you have applied to your life since reading this book?

BM Since reading this book I have purposely tried to share my faith with others so that they know where I stand in life and they are aware of the God that I serve. It is so important to me that people who I come in contact with know that my faith and relationship with God are first and foremost in my life.

New periodical subscriptions

International Journal of African Renaissance Studies: Multi-, Inter-, and Transdiciplinarity

Published by the Centre for African Renaissance Studies at the University of South Africa.

Current issue available in the BCC Library: Vol. 1, no.2

Contents: The disciplinary, interdisciplinary and global dimensions of African Studies / Paul Tiyambe Zeteza -- Transdisciplinarity: The dawn of an emerging approach to acquiring knowledge / Rushiella Songca -- Inaugural lecture of the South African Parliamentary Millennium Group: Perspectives on Africa / Thabo Mbeki -- Participation of African member states in the World Trade Organization (WTO) multilateral trading system / Z. Ntozintle Jobodwana -- A historical and dignity-centred perspective on Haiti's struggle for justice / Mildred Aristide -- Towards a new paradigm for pan-African knowledge production and application in the context of the African Renaissance / Shadrack B. O. Gutto -- Poverty and invisibility: the development process and the lethal consequences of the denial of the Third World capacity / John Maxwell -- A media perspective of the African Renaissance / Phil Molefi -- African Studies in Africa / Naledi Pandor -- National Curricular guidelines for the education of ethnic-racial relations and for the teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture.

The Journal of the National Black Nurses Association (http://www.nbna.org/)

JNBNA publishes scholarly papers, research reports, critical essays, resource listings, documents and reviews focusing on issues related to factors affecting health care in Black communities and nurses.

Current issue available in the BCC Library: Vol. 18, no. 2

Contents: Examining racial and ethnic disparities and predictors of medication use among California's African-American, Latino, and White children with asthma / Kymna Wright -- Community income, smoking, and birth weight disparities in Wisconsin / Mario Sims, Tammy Harris Sims, Marino A. Bruce -- A Quick Survey of an HBCU's first year nursing students' perception of the HIV/AIDS phenomenon / Joseph A. Adepoju, Mary P. Watkins, Agnes M. Richardson -- Assessing knowledge of breast self exams in older African-American women / Andrea Jennings-Sanders -- Health-promoting behaviors of English-speaking Caribbean women in the United States / Sabita Persaud -- Patient perspectives on disparities in Healthcare from African-American, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American samples including a secondary analysis of the Institute of Medicine focus group data / Fannie Gaston-Johansson, Felicia Hill-Briggs, Lola Oguntomilade, Vanessa Bradley, Phyllis Mason -- Promoting breast health among women in the U.S. Virgin Islands: a focused study on the needs of Caribbean women / Sandra Underwood, Edith Ramsay Johnson, Gloria Callwood, Edris E. Evans -- Racial disparities in access to care within the cardiac revascularization population / Pamela S. Miller -- The incidence of cardiovascular disease in menopausal women on hormone replacement therapy: a clinical evidence-based medicine review / Clinton A. Toles.

African American Facts in Numbers

AFRICAN AMERICAN FACTS IN NUMBERS Did you know…? Below are some of the figures from the U.S. Census Bureau’s “Facts for Features, Black History Month: February 2008”.
1.3 million “Among Blacks 25 and older, the number who had an advanced degree in 2006 (e.g., master’s, doctorate, medical or law). In 1996, 683,000 blacks had this level of education.”
Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2006 http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/009749.html 24.3% “Poverty rate in 2006 for single-race Blacks. This rate was down from 31.1 percent in 1986.” Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html 26% “The percentage of single-race Blacks 16 and older who work in management, professional, and related occupations. There are
44,900 black physicians and surgeons, 80,000 postsecondary teachers, 48,300 lawyers, and 52,400 chief executives.” Sources: 2006 American Community Survey and Upcoming Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 http://factfinder.census.gov and http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab Facts for Features, Black History Month 2008: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/cb08ff-01.pdf

BCC Reads Essay Contest

Quiet Strength : A Memoir by Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker outlines Mr. Dungy’s ideas about what it takes to a have a winning life. Purdue freshmen (currently enrolled with less than 2 semesters at Purdue) are invited to participate in an essay contest about the book. Multiple copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk in the Black Cultural Center Library.

Essay Contest Guidelines and Requirements:
Submit an essay (500 - 1000 words) based on your reading of Quiet Strength. Your approach to writing the essay is open. The essay may be a personal reflection or a critical analysis. The essay may or may not have secondary sources. However, Wikipedia is not acceptable as a source for this exercise. more

Black-related databases - Trial Access

African American Song - Black History Month Trial ends March 7, 2008

(To access go to http://internal.purdue4.classical.com/

African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

African American Studies Center - One Year Trial

(To access Purdue Libraries databases page at http://www.lib.purdue.edu/#databases)

The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. more

Black Short Fiction and Folklore for Africa and the African Diaspora - Black History Month Trial ends March 6, 2008

(To access go to http://blfi.alexanderstreet.com/)

Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora is the most comprehensive collection yet created of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. When complete, it will offer more than 8,000 short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life.

Black Woman Writers - Black History Month Trial ends March 6, 2008

(To access go to http://blww.alexanderstreet.com/)

Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora. Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives an unparalleled view of black women’s struggles through time. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of extraordinary writings.

Fruteland Jackson

Connecting Culturally

Purdue Black Graduate Association to bring noted author Michael Dyson to campus
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A noted author and researcher on African-American religion and current events will speak on "African-Americans in the Academy: Climate and Conflict" on Sept. 25 at Purdue University.
The Rev. Michael Eric Dyson, who has written 14 books and appeared on such television talk show programs as "The Colbert Report," "Real Time with Bill Maher" and the "Travis Smiley Show," will speak at 8 p.m. in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The event is free and open to the public.
"Dr. Dyson is hailed by many people as an intellectual leader in society and academia, and we couldn't be more pleased to bring him to Purdue," said Deen King Smith, a doctoral student in the College of Engineering who is helping lead the event. "He's insightful and has something to say. We're looking forward to it." more



Suggested readings available at Purdue



Brown, Cecil. 2007. Dude, where's my Black studies department? the disappearance of Black Americans from our universities. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books.

378.1982996073 B812d 2007 (BCC & Undergraduate)


Cuyjet, Michael J. 1997. Helping African American men succeed in college, New directions for student services; no. 80. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

378.1982996 H369 1997 (BCC)


Howard-Hamilton, Mary F. 2004. Meeting the needs of African American women, New directions for student services, no. 104. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
African American women in higher education / Eboni M. Zamani -- Theoretical frameworks for African American women / Mary F. Howard-Hamilton -- Come to the river: using spirituality to cope, resist, and develop identity / Sherry K. Watt -- Personal, academic, and career counseling of African American women in college settings / Madonna G. Constantine, Tawanda M. Greer -- Programming needs and student services for African American women / Alexandria M. Rosales, Dawn R. Person -- Mentoring relationships among African American women in graduate and professional schools / Lori D. Patton, Shaun R. Harper -- The experiences of African American women faculty and administrators in higher education: has anything changed? / Carol Logan Patitu, Kandace G. Hinton -- Inights: emphasizing issues that affect African American women / Robin L. Hughes, Mary F. Howard-Hamilton.


378.19822 M472 2004 (HSSE)


Jones, Lee. 2001. Retaining African Americans in higher education: challenging paradigms for retaining students, faculty, and administrators. 1st ed. Sterling, Va.: Stylus Pub.

378.1982996073 R313 2001 (BCC)

Jones, Lee, and Cornel West. 2002. Making it on broken promises: leading African American male scholars confront the culture of higher education. 1st ed. Sterling, Va.: Stylus.

378.1982996073 M289 2002 (BCC & HSSE)

Myers, Lena Wright. 2002. A broken silence: voices of African American women in the academy. Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey.


378.1208996073 M992b 2002 (BCC & HSSE)

Stanley, Christine A. 2006. Faculty of color: teaching in predominantly White colleges and universities. Bolton, Mass.: Anker Pub.


378.12089 F119 2006 (BCC)


Thompson, Gail L., and Angela Louque. 2005. Exposing the "culture of arrogance" in the academy: a blueprint for increasing Black faculty satisfaction in higher education. 1st ed. Sterling, Va.: Stylus Pub.


378.1208996073 T373e 2005 (BCC)

New Periodical Titles in the BCC Library




Black Masks: Spotlight on Black Art

Subscription began with Feb./Mar. 2007, Vol. 18, no. 1.

Progress Theatre: New Voices
Cristal Chanelle Truscott, with three NYU classmates, Maiesha McQueen, Dana Bowles, and Aaron Goodson, turned a final graduation project into a deeply insightful performance piece that has won the hearts of young and adult audiences across the country. more





Black mba Magazine


Library has: spring 2007

Contents: Black MBA Magazine names top 50 companies for Black MBAs to work in 2007 -- Marriott shines in the diversity spotlight -- Profiles of other top companies.





Latest Issue Received of Continuing Subscription




Philosophia africana: analysis of philosophy and issues in Africa and the Black diaspora


Islam and the West: unequal distance/unequal difference / Mustapha Marrouchi -- The enlightenment gaze: Africans in the mind of Western philosophy / J. Obi Oguejiofor -- The pitfalls of cultural consciousness / Chielozona Eze -- Duality and resilience in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart -- Was Joseph Conrad really a racist? / Caryl Philips and Chinua Achebe -- Neo-tribalism and postcolonial melancholia / Hywel Williams.

Harlem’s Cultural Anchor in a Sea of Ideas
By FELICIA R. LEE
Published: May 11, 2007
As the Schomburg Center unveils its $11 million facelift, Harlem itself is also undergoing one of its periodic renaissances. more

NEW DVDs IN THE BCC Library

African-Americans in thoroughbred racing. 1993. Louisville, KY: Kentucky Derby Museum. videorecording.

Educates students about the significant contributions made by African Americans to the thoroughbred racing industry.
[developed and published by the Education Department of the Kentucky Derby Museum].
"Sponsored by Duracell U.S.A."



Akeelah and the bee. 2006. Santa Monica, CA: Lions Gate Home Entertainment. videorecording.

Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from Dr. Larabee, an English professor, for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of. First Akeelah has to overcome her insecurities, her distracting home life, and the knowledge that there is a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers.

Akeelah and the bee (Motion picture)
Lionsgate, 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc.; produced by Laurence Fishburne, Sid Ganis, Nancy Hult Ganis, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa; written and directed by Doug Atchison.
Special features: Making of 'Akeelah and the bee'; Two peas in a pod; Inside the mind of Akeelah; Keke Palmer "All My Girlz' music video; Gag reel; Deleted scenes.
Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael, Sahara Garey, Lee Thompson Young.
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Beyond the steps: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 2006. United States: Dance Philm. videorecording.

Follows the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as they move into a new facility in New York City and Artistic Director Judith Jamison creates a new ballet entitled Love stories.
produced and directed by Phil Bertelsen; a co-production of Dance Philm and Thirteen/WNET New York in association with National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC).
Originally broadcast in 2006 as an episode of Dance in America in the Great performances series.
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The Charlie Rose show. 2005. United States: Public Broadcasting Service. videorecording.

Charlie Rose interviews retired professor of history, John Hope Franklin. Discussion topics include Franklin's childhood in rural Oklahoma, his involvement in the civil rights movement, his career in Duke University, and race relations in America as he sees them.
Thirteen WNET New York, Public Broadcasting Service; director, Mike Jay; producers, Victoria Brown. [et al.].
Episode #548.
Host, Charlie Rose; interviewee, John Hope Franklin.
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February one. 2004. San Francisco: California Newsreel. videorecording.

"February One tells the inspiring story of four remarkable young men who initiated the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, NC on February 1, 1960. Based largely on first hand accounts and rare archival footage, the film documents one volatile winter in Greensboro that not only challenged public accommodation customs and law in North Carolina, but served as a blueprint for the wave of non-violent civil rights protests that swept across the South and the nation throughout the 1960s"--Container.
Video Dialog Inc. presents; producer, Rebecca Cerese; writer/co-producer, Daniel Blake Smith.
February 1
DVD release of 2003 documentary film.
DVD includes full length version (57 min.) and abbreviated version (38 min.).
At beginning of presentation: ETV; Southern Lens; Video Dialog Inc. presents.
Narrator, Lesley Blair.
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The fight. 2004. United States: Paramount Home Entertainment. videorecording.

This documentary captures the anticipation that the bout between African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling generated, the events leading up to it, the impact Louis's victory had on Blacks and its significance for Jews.
a Social Media Productions film for American experience in association with MDR/Arte and the BBC; written, produced, and directed by by Barak Goodman.
Narrator: Courtney B. Vance.
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Freedom's song: 100 years of African-American struggle and triumph. 2006. Los Angeles, Calif.: Farmer's Insurance Group. videorecording.

Ten episodes, one for each decade of the 20th century, highlight stories in African American history from the 20th century that were either omitted from or marginally discussed in history textbooks to date. A mini biography, Someone you should know, follows each decade's story to highlight the life of a significant historical figure of the decade. Segments are accompanied by individual lessons plans. This documentary/lesson plans curriculum was created for educational use by the Curriculum Design Team in the College of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs headed by Dr. La Vonne I. Neal in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and Farmers Insurance Group. Using standards of the National Council for Social Studies and the culturally responsive teaching framework of Dr. Geneva Gay, each lesson combines historical scholarship with effective teaching methods.
Documentary.
Title from disc label.
"Made possible by Farmers Insurance Group in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators.sponsored by the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History"--Accompanying materials.
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God's gonna trouble the water. 1997. Columbia, SC: SCETV. videorecording.

The story of the Gullah people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia and how they forged a culture distinctly their own.
WJWJ; South Carolina Educational Television; produced and written by Teresa Bruce; directed by Paul Keyserling.

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The Ku Klux Klan: a secret history. 2002. New York, NY: A & E Television Networks: History Channel: Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group. videorecording.

Presents a history of the Ku Klux Klan, from its beginnings after the Civil War to recent years, and its practices of terror against minorities.
produced by Termite Art Productions in association with Bill Brummel Productions for the History Channel; A & E Television Networks; written and produced by Bill Brummel.
Originally produced in 1996 and 1998.
Narrator, D. Paul Thomas.
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The language you cry in. 1998. San Francisco, Cal.: California Newsreel. videorecording.

Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them.
a film from California Newsreel; producer/directors, Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano.
This disc is a DVD-R and may fail to play on some DVD equipment.
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Liberia: America's stepchild. 2002. Alexandria, Va.: Distributed by PBS Home Video. videorecording.

From Haitian slave revolts and the American Colonization Society to the 1997 election of Charles Taylor to the presidency and his corrupt administration, this program looks at events leading up the founding of Liberia and its history up through the twentieth century.
written and directed by Nancee Oku Bright; a production of Grain Coast Productions for WGBH. Narrator, Nancee Oku Bright; scholars, Elwood Dunn, Mary Antoinette Brown Sherman, Patrick Burrows, Kenneth Best, and Ambassador Herbert Brewer.
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Many steps: the origin and evolution of African American collegiate stepping. 2002. United States: California Newsreel. videorecording.

"The origin and evolution of African American collegiate stepping is explored in this energetic and informative documentary. Stepping is a popular communal art form in which teams of young dancers compete, using improvisation, call and response, complex meters, propulsive rhythms and a percussive attack"--Container.
a Gorofa Entertainment production.
Origin and evolution of African American collegiate stepping
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Martin Luther King "I have a dream." 2005. Oak Forest, IL: MPI Home Video. videorecording.

I Have A Dream contains King's entire inspirational speech in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
"I have a dream"
Special features: "The big march" (1963); "March on Washington" (1963); "The march twenty years later" (1983).
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Martin Scorsese presents the blues: a musical journey. 2003. 1st ed. New York: Amistad

"A companion book to the PBS documentary series Martin Scorsese presents the blues: a musical journey"--Intro.
Preface / Foreword / Writing About the Blues: The Process / An Introductory Note / A Century of the Blues / "The St. Louis Blues" / "We Wear the Mask" / "Stones in My Passway" / "Dream Boogie" / "You Know I Love You" / "Prisoner's Talking Blues" / Feel Like Going Home / Son House: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning / "Hellhound on My Trail" / The Blues Avant-Garde / The Levee-Camp Holler / Muddy Waters: August 31, 1941 / A Riff on Reading Sterling Plumpp's Poetry / Thank God for Robert Johnson / Howlin' Wolf / Jim Dickinson and His Son Luther on Coming of Age in the North Mississippi Hill Country -- Why I Wear My Mojo Hand / Ali Farka Toure: Sound Travels / French Talking Blues / Warming by the Devil's Fire / Bessie Smith: Who Killed the Empress? / "Ma Rainey" / A Night With Bessie Smith / Billie Holiday / Early Downhome Blues Recordings / Let's Get Drunk and Truck: A Guide to the Party Blues / Remembering Robert Johnson /
The Devil's Son-in-Law / Hoboing With Big Joe / The Little Church / Down at the Cross / Redemption Song / "I (Too) Hear America Singing" / The Road to Memphis / Furry's Blues / Recalling Beale Street in Its Glory / Bobby "Blue" Bland: Love Throat of the Blues / "The River's Invitation" / On the Road with Louis Armstrong / Sam Phillips on Gutbucket Blues -- Wolf Live in '65 / The Soul of a Man / Visionary Blindness: Blind Lemon Jefferson and Other Vision-Impaired Bluesmen / "Blind Willie McTell" / Locating Lightnin' / Henry Thomas: Our Deepest Look at the Roots / Janie and Tea Cake / Photographer Peter Amft on J.B. Lenoir -- Driving Mr. James / Clifford Antone on Livin' and Lovin' the Blues -- Jimmie Vaughan on Being Born into the Blues -- Somethin' That Reach Back in Your Life / Goofathers and Sons / Muddy, Wolf, and Me: Adventures in the Blues Trade / Chicago Pep / Memphis Minnie and the Cutting Contest / Happy New Year! With Memphis Minnie /
Big Bill and Studs: A Friendship for the Ages / Chicago Blues, Sixties Style / Getting a Hit Blues Record / And It's Deep, Too / Between Muddy and the Wolf: Guitarist Hubert Sumlin / Me and Big Joe / Photographer Peter Amft on Chicago Bluesmen -- Buddy Guy Arrives in Chicago / The Gift / How I Met My Husband / Red, White and Blues / A Conversation With Eric Clapton / Big Bill Broonzy: Key to the Highway / The First Time I Met the Blues / The Rolling Stones Come Together / My Blues Band: The Rolling Stones / Piano Blues and Beyond / Our Ladies of the Keys: Blues and Gone / On Learning to Play the Blues / Powerhouse / Ray Charles Discovers the Piano / Finding Professor Longhair / Dr. John and Joel Dorn on New Orleans Piano Styles -- Marcia Ball on Big Easy Blues -- Chris Thomas King's Twenty-First-Century Blues / Shemekia Copeland on Her Melting-Pot Blues -- My Journey to the Blues / The Blues Is the Blood / Blues: The Footprints of Popular Music / Acknowledgments /

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Muhammad Ali: through the eyes of the world. 2001. Universal City, CA: Universal Studios. videorecording.

This documentary explores the public image that developed about Ali as his fame began to grow. producer, director, Phil Grabsky.

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Muhammad Ali: the whole story. 2001. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video. videorecording.

The six episodes profile the life and career of Muhammad Ali.
Formatted to fit TV screen.
Episode 1. The beginning: Olympic gold -- Episode 2. The youngest heavyweight champion -- Episode 3. Exile -- Episode 4. The road back -- Episode 5. The rumble in the jungle -- Episode 6. The thrilla in Manila.
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Rosa Parks Capitol arrival. 2005. Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN. videorecording.

Appearances by Pres. George W. Bush; Laura Bush; Harold Carter; Pastor Daniel Couglhlin, Chaplain U.S. House of Representatives; Rosa Parks.
Description based on: DVD; Title from disc label.
Recorded in Washington, D.C. by C-SPAN in 2005.
Rosa Parks' remains arriving at the U>S. Capitol building prior to being left to lie in repose in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. She was the 29th person to be given such an honor, and the first woman. The Morgan State University Choir sang. Event Date: October 31, 2005.

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Rosa Parks lying in honor. 2005. Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN. videorecording.

Footage shows various activities in the Rotunda from approximately 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Eastersn Standard Time.
Description based on: DVD; Title from disc label.
Recorded in Washington, D.C. by C-SPAN October 31, 2005.
For a second day Ms. Parks was honored as mourners passed by her remains lying in repose in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Among those in attendance were government officials, dignitaries, civil rights leaders, and members of the general public. Following the public viewing the casket was carried to a hearse by a military honor guard, where the cortege then left for the Metropolitian A.M.E. Church for a memorial service.

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Rosa Parks memorial service. 2005. Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN. videorecording.

Televised coverage of the memorial service for civil rights legend Rosa Parks. Participants pay tribute to Ms. Parks as a catalyst of the civil rights movement, her legacy as a voice for the black community, and her service to the nation, in passionate speeches and with music.
[produced by] C-SPAN.
Julian Bond, Sam Brownback, Johnnie Carr, John Conyers, Cain Hope Felder, Ernest Green, Dorothy I. Height, Gwen Ifill, Edward M. Kennedy, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Cicely Tyson, Melvin Watt, Oprah Winfrey.

Shattering the silences. 1997. San Francisco, Calif.: California Newsreel. videorecording.

Explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, focusing on the experience of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at various institutions.
a production of Gail Pellett Productions, Inc.; produced and directed by Stanley Nelson, Gail Pellett; writers, Stanley Nelson, Gail Pellett.
Narrator: Lynne Thigpen.
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Small steps, big strides. 2005. United States: Image Entertainment. videorecording.

This tribute celebrates African American silver screen legends. Included are interviews and rare footage documenting the kinds of roles black actors were first given, the challenges these performers met, and the real behind-the-scenes story of their acceptance and triumphs in Hollywood.
Van Ness Films in association with Foxstar Productions. [et al.]; written, produced and directed by Velma Cato.
Black experience in Hollywood
Originally produced as a television documentary in 1998.
Narrated by Louis Gossett, Jr.; on-screen interviews with the Nicholas Brothers, Gregory Hines, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Bobby Short and film historian Donald Bogle.
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Twelve disciples of Nelson Mandela. 2005. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel. videorecording.

"Confronted with the death of his stepfather, director Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey to understand the man who raised him, Pule Benjamin Leinaeng ("Lee") - an ANC foot-soldier who sacrificed his life for the freedom of his country. As part of the first wave of South African freedom fighters, Lee and his comrades left their homeland in 1960 to broadcast to the world the brutality of apartheid and to raise support for the African National Congress ("ANC") and its leaders, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. This film is an intimate tale about an African-American family, the anti-apartheid movement and the quest for reconciliation between a father and son."--IMDb.com
California Newsreel presents; Independent Television Service; produced by Chimpanzee Productions; a film by Thomas Allen Harris.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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What's race got to do with it? 2006. Berkeley, CA: California Newsreel. videorecording.

This program "chronicles the experiences of a new generation of college students, in this case over the course of 16 weeks of intergroup dialogue on the U.C. Berkeley campus. As they confront themselves and each other about race, they discover they often lack awareness of how different their experience of campus life is from their peers, to the detriment of an inclusive campus climate" -- Container.
California Newsreel presents; written, directed and produced by Jean Cheng.
What has race got to do with it?
Social disparities and student success
Title from disc menu screen.
Special features (46 min.): optional audio commentaries and excerpted interviews with Dave Stark & Jerlena Griffin-Destra (course goals & objectives, creating a space for dialogue, students' lives as the curriculum, course history: how conflict emerges, socioeconomic disparities, assessing the process, facing issues that arise).
Co-facilitators: Dave Stark, Jerlena Griffin-Destra; narrator: Belinda Sullivan.
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When we were kings: the untold story of the rumble in the jungle. 2005. Standard and widescreen formats. ed. Universal City, CA: Universal Studios

A documentary on Muhammad Ali at the time of the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" match with George Forman in Zaire.
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When rice was king. 1999. Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina ETV. videorecording.

Depicts the history of the rice culture in South Carolina.
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New items in the BCC Library

Mathematics success and failure among African-American youth by Danny Bernard Martin

No matter how mathematics achievement and persistence are measured, African Americans seem to lag behind their peers. This state of affairs is typically explained in terms of student ability, family background, differential treatment by teachers, and biased curricula. But what can explain disproportionately poor performance and persistence of African-American students who clearly possess the ability to do well, who come from varied family and socioeconomic backgrounds, who are taught by caring and concerned teachers, and who learn mathematics in the context of a reform-oriented mathematics curriculum? And, why do some African-American students succeed in mathematics when underachievement is the norm among their fellow students? Danny Martin addresses these questions in Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth, the results of a year-long ethnographic and observational study of African-American students and their parents and teachers. -- Cover


The Black Scholar (request this issue at the Circulation Desk until bound)

WINTER 2006
Volume 36, No. 4

HURRICANE KATRINA
Contents
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Introduction to The Black Scholar Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina: High Tide of a New Racial Formation / Guest Editor, SUNDIATA KEITA CHA-JUA
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The Wretched of the Gulf: Racism, Technological Dramas, and Black Politics of Technology / RAYVON FOUCHE
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Post-Katrina Housing: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for African-Americans in New Orleans / LISA K. BATES
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“Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People”: Race, Class, and Attributions of Responsibility in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / BRENDESHA TYNES, CARLA HUNTER, HELEN A. NEVILLE, M. NICOLE COLEMAN
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Natural Versus Social Phenomena: Cuba and the Lessons of Katrina / AUGUST NIMITZ
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Katrina 101: A Black Studies Curriculum Challenge / ABDUL ALKALIMAT

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
(new dvd in the Black Cultural Center Library; request at Circulation Desk)



This intimate, heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of misery, despair and triumph. The film also looks at a community that has been through hell and back, surviving death, devastation and disease at every turn. Yet, somehow, amidst the ruins, the people of New Orleans are finding new hope and strength as the city rises from the ashes, buoyed by their own resilience and a rich cultural legacy. "New Orleans is fighting for its life," says Lee. "These are not people who will disappear quietly - they're accustomed to hardship and slights, and they'll fight for New Orleans. This film will showcase the struggle for New Orleans by focusing on the profound loss, as well as the indomitable spirit of New Orleaneans." more

Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., has worked in private practice, for the U.S. Public Health Service, and on numerous committees, and in 1993 was the first African American woman to be appointed dean of a United States medical school.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in a housing project, Barbara Ross-Lee faced discrimination as a young African American woman. Growing up in inner city Detroit, she and her sister shared a fondness for show business, performing with their brothers and sisters in the church choir. But while Diana Ross pursued a career in music that led her from urban poverty to celebrity as the lead singer of the "Supremes," Barbara Ross made her mark in the sciences. more

Black Cultural Center library to feature film 'Still Black, At Yale'

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's Black Cultural Center library at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 will feature a screening of "Still Black, At Yale," a 2004 film co-produced by Yale University undergraduate students.
Monique Walton and Andia Winslow produced the film, which was inspired by Warrington Hudlin's 1974 film "Black at Yale." Walton and Winslow revisit multiple dynamics of race and identity.

Winslow will facilitate a discussion after the screening. The event, which will take place in Stewart Center, Room 214, is free and open to the public. more

Purdue Black Cultural Center co-presents August Wilson's Seven Guitars

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue Theatre will mark its centennial year in style as it presents the entire 2006-07 season in the new Nancy T. Hansen and Carole and Gordon Mallett theaters in Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts.
"During the last century, thousands of students, faculty, staff and theater lovers have contributed their talent, energy and resources to bring the division to this stage," said Russ Jones, division chair and associate professor of theater. "With the addition of the building's elegant new front plaza, entry doors and convenient parking, we hope many members of the Purdue and local communities join us for this season's offerings."
Jones said one of the season highlights includes the opening production "Seven Guitars," which will be co-presented with the Black Cultural Center beginning Sept. 21. Written by August Wilson, the production is set in 1948 and weaves together the stories of seven African-American friends into a pulsing rhythm of hope, loss, jubilation and despair. The drama will feature Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, an aspiring blues musician, as he returns home to reclaim his woman and revive his career. Theresa M. Davis from the University of Virginia will serve as the guest director of the production that will run through Oct. 1. more

A copy of the play is available on Reserve in the Black Cultural Center Library.