Diversity Video Library

Affirmative Action Debate: WWU

Publisher: WWU, Viking Union
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

A debate surrounding Affirmative Action and Initiative 200.

Affirmative Action: Fulfilling the Promise of Equal Opportunity

Publisher: Maldef Affirmative Action Campaign
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

This video discusses the importance of affirmative action, how it helps minorities and women, and when it started. It shows how affirmative action impacts educational, career, and economical opportunities through the use of individual stories of people who have benefited from it.

Equal Opportunity: The American Dilemma; A debate on Affirmative Action with Dinesh D'Souza and Tim Wise

Publisher: Evergreen, Office for Equal Opportunity
Format: VHS
Runtime: 1 hr 11 mins
Captions: No

Tim Wise and Dinesh D'Sousa debate the merits of Affirmative Action at The Evergreen State College. Includes statements and questions from the community audience of approximately 1200. D'Sousa, a political conservative, describes himself as antiracist and sympathetic to minorities. A first generation immigrant from India, he authored the highly controversial book Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (1991) and The End of Racism (1995). Tim Wise is an expert on racism and the political movements of the far right. He is the director of the youth Anti- Prejudice Project and speaks extensively around the country about racial tolerance and understanding. As assistant director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, he was instrumental in the political demise of neo-Nazi David Duke. He is the author of Little White Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination.

A Grain of Sand

Publisher: Nobuko, Great Leap Production
Format: VHS
Runtime:
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In a poetic fusion of story, song, and video imagery, Nobuko Miyamoto breaks through the forces of silence in search of her own song.

Harassment: Keeping it out of the Workplace

Publisher: American Training Resources
Format: VHS
Runtime: 18 mins
Captions: No

A series of vignettes that communicate the destructive nature of workplace harassment, including sexual harassment, workplace harassment, abuse of authority, and racism. --from http://www.atr-inc.com

Initiative 200 Debate, Tim Wise and Tim Eyman

Publisher: TVW, Tim Wise and Tim Eyman
Format: VHS
Runtime: 1 hr 34 min
Captions: No

Tim Eyman and Tim Wise debate the merits of anti-affirmative action Initiative 200 at the University of Washington. Includes statements and questions from the community. The initiative was passed by vote of the citizens of Washington State in November 1998. Tim Eyman was co-chairman of the campaign for Washington State Initiative 200 attacking affirmative action for women and people of color in public employment, education and contracting. Tim Wise is an expert on racism and political movements of the far right. He is the director of the youth Anti-Prejudice Project and speaks extensively around the country about racial tolerance and understanding. As assistant director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, he was instrumental in the political demise of neo-Nazi David Duke. He is the author of Little White Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination.

Last Chance for Eden

Publisher: Lee Mun Wah
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

Last Chance for Eden is a documentary about eight men and women discussing the issues of racism and sexism in the workplace. They examine the impact of society's stereotypes on their lives in the workplace, in their personal relationships and within their families and in their communities. In the course of their dialogue, they also explore the differences and similarities between racism and sexism - an area that has seldom been researched, but has heatedly become a very important issue needing to be understood and dealt with.

The cast was painstakingly selected from a large pool of interesting and dynamic applicants. We would like to thank everyone who answered our questionnaire. We've saved them all and are keeping them for consideration for our upcoming films.

Lioness

Publisher: Room 11 Productions
Format: DVD
Runtime: 82
Captions: Yes

How did a group of Army women-mechanics, supply clerks, and engineers-end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war? Directors Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers offer an unprecedented look at the war through the eyes of the first women in the U.S. history to be sent into direct ground combat in violation of official policy. Through intimate personal stories and scenes from their lives back home, the film creates a deeply moving portrait of love, faith, duty, and solidarity.

Lourdes Arguelles

Publisher: Evegreen, Lourdes Arguelles
Format: VHS
Runtime:
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Lourdes Arguelles received her Ph.D. at New York University from the Division of Behavioral Sciences, Center for Human Relations and Community Studies of the School of Education. Her concentrations were in Psychology and Sociology. She did post-doctoral work in law and psychiatry at Osgood Hall Law School at York University in Canada and in ethnic studies at the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA. Dr. Arguelles is a licensed marriage, child, and family therapist in the state of California. Her theoretical interests in the political economy and the spirituality of everyday life and her commitment to social and ecological justice and non-human animal welfare were shaped by the experience of the Cuban socialist revolution, by her studies with Buddhist teachers in India, Japan, Thailand, and Burma, and with a Chinese Qi-Qong master in the U.S. They were also greatly influenced by living and working with refugees and indigenous peoples throughout the world. Community, labor, and environmental organizing work in the inner cities of Montreal, New York, Miami, Florida, and in US-Mexico border cities and clinical practice with people living with HIV/AIDS, survivors of political and family torture, and with women of color and sexual minorities, have led her to an interest in the development of critical psychological modalities of care and ecologically-based educational practices, as well as to an interest in the field of gender and feminist studies. Dr. Arguelles' experience of growing up in an extended family system in the Caribbean and her life experiences in non-advanced industrial parts of the world have greatly contributed to her work in narrative research and storytelling pedagogy

Regret to Inform

Publisher: Barbara Sonneborn and Sun Foundation Productions
Format: VHS
Runtime: 72 mins
Captions: No

Regret to Inform looks at the Vietnam War through the lenses of women who lived through it, nurses, U.S. and Vietnamese widows, women who were children at the time. The video jacket reads, "...has extraordinary power and beauty. It is a personal, haunting and redemption-filled journey that will forever change the way you think about war." Our viewers agree.

Sexual Harassment: Minimizing the Risk

Publisher: McGrath
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

Skin Deep

Publisher: Iris Films Production
Format: VHS
Runtime: 53 mins
Captions: No

The award winning film, by Academy-Award nominated producer Frances Reid, chronicles the provocative journey of a diverse group of college students as they examine their deeply held attitudes and feelings about race. Through their dialogue and interactions, they explore the barriers that stand in the way of building a society that truly respects all races.

Southern Poverty Law Center

Publisher: SPLC
Format: VHS
Runtime: 22 mins
Captions: No

A video presentation about The Southern Poverty Law Center, their work and their offices.

Talking About Race

Publisher: Iris Films Productions
Format: VHS
Runtime: Part 1: 12 mins, Part 2: 13 mins
Captions: No

Talking About Race, parts 1 and 2 are designed to facilitate classroom or community group discussions about the race and ethnicity-related experiences and attitudes of college students. Using footage shot for the award wining documentary Skin Deep, each vignette presents a different issue for discussion. These videos were directed and produced by Frances Reid.

The Way Home

Publisher: Shakti Butler
Format: VHS
Runtime: 92 mins
Captions: No

A documentary film about race, gender and class in the United States. Over the course of eight months, sixty-four women, representing a cross-section of cultures in the U.S., met in councils separated by ethnicity - African-American, Arab, Asian, European-American, Indigenous, Jewish, Latina, and Multi-Racial. With uncommon courage, the women shared their minds and hearts and told their stories about resistance, love, assimilation, standards of beauty, power, school experiences and more. Their candid conversations offer rare access into multi-dimensional cultural worlds invisible to outsiders.

You are the Game: Sexual Harassment on Campus

Publisher: Indiana University
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

This video is more useful for research or informational purposes rather than in presentations. It dramatizes the situations of two college women who have experienced different forms of sexual harassment. Most of this discussion focuses on the difficulty students have in dealing in isolation with a pattern of harassment and the impact it has on their lives.