African American Studies

Black Studies offers a variety of African American studies databases, including full-text, audio and video, across a range of History, Literature, and Performing Arts sources. The current version of ASP's Black Studies includes Black Studies in Video, with full-text and audio resources forthcoming. Part of the Alexander Street database.

Ten part documentary on racial inequities in a high performing suburban Chicago high school.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS miniseries focusing on African American genealogical research.

"Provides a history of the Broadside Press and a biography of its founder, Dudley Randall. Includes interviews with Mr. Randall and other authors involved with the press over a twenty-five year period."

"In 1934, Georgia Tech refused to play football against Michigan unless the team benched Willis Ward, an African American player. Ward's teammate and friend, Gerald Ford, nearly quit the team in protest. This event shaped the lives of Ward and Ford and the two formed a friendship that lasted for the rest of their lives."

Fourteen part documentary series on the American Civil Rights Movement.

"The program highlights issues of pressure, conformity, and acceptance; looks at beauty as a social construction; and examines how these issues have different impacts on men and women of different ages."

"The story of the American civil rights movement through its music, the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and more, as they fought for justice and equality."

"Explore with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed-forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds."

"...considers the difference between black photographers who use the camera to define themselves, their people, and their culture and some white photographers who, historically, have demeaned African-Americans through racist imagery."

"Uses archival footage, period accounts and interviews with family members and colleagues to chronicle the monumental life of the first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court."

Documentary series explores racial and economic inequalities in health.

WNYC Studios' The Takeaway Podcast episode featuring critics from Newsday and Slate.

Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Catalog description: Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive.

Ana DuVernay's award-winning documentary on race, justice and mass incarceration in the United States.

Films in the collection include Selma and A Wrinkle in Time. 13th can be viewed free online via Netflix's YouTube Channel.

Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk.

Catalog description: Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.

"Tells the story of a large African-American family at the dawn of the 20th century as they prepare to move north from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia."

Solomon Northup's Odyssey Twelve Years as a Slave, Super Fly, and Shaft.

DVDs in the library's collection include Get Out, Us, and other titles Peele has been involved with.

Creed, Black Panther, and Fruitvale Station.

Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Blackkklansman, and other productions produced or directed by Spike Lee. Most of these titles are available on DVD.

"The story of four African-American women who journey through a modern labyrinth of husbands and lovers, jobs and makeovers."