Diversity Video Library

Affirmative Action Debate: WWU

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

A debate surrounding Affirmative Action and Initiative 2000.

A Class Apart

Publisher: American Experience
Format: DVD
Runtime: 60 minutes
Captions: Yes

In the small town of Edna, Texas in 1951, a field hand names Pete Hernandez killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a gritty cantina. From this seemingly unremarkable murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives of and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans.

In this case, lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were "a class apart" and did not neatly fit into a legal structure that recognized only blacks and whites. As legal skirmishes unfolded, the lawyers emerged as brilliant, dedicated, humorous, and at times terribly flawed men. This film dramatically interweaves the story of its central characters- activists, and lawyers, returning veterans and ordinary citizens, murder, and victim- within the broader history of Latinos in America during a time of extraordinary change. The DVD includes materials for educators as well as Spanish language audio and subtitles.

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.

African American Lives

Publisher: PBS
Format: DVD
Runtime: 240 mins
Captions: No

Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois professor of the Humanities and chair of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, African American Lives, an unprecedented four-part PBS series, takes Alex Haley's Roots saga to a whole new level through moving stories of personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories and DNA analysis to trace lineage through American history and back to Africa, the series provides a life-changing journey for a diverse group of highly accomplished African Americans: Dr. Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Chris Tucker and Oprah Winfrey.

African American Lives 2

Publisher: PBS
Format: DVD
Runtime: 240 mins
Captions: Yes

Building on the widespread acclaim of African American Lives (2006) and Oprah's Roots (2007), AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 again journeys deep into ancestry of an all-new group of remarkable individuals, offering an in-depth look at the African-American experience and race relations throughout U.S. history. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns as series host, guiding genealogical investigations down through the 20th century, Reconstruction, slavery and early U.S. history, and presenting cutting-edge genetic analysis that locates participants' ancestors in Africa, Europe and America . Joining Professor Gates in the new broadcast are poet Maya Angelou, author Bliss Broyard, actor Don Cheadle, actor Morgan Freeman, theologian Peter Gomes, publisher Linda Johnson Rice, athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, radio personality Tom Joyner, comedian Chris Rock, music legend Tina Turner, and college administrator Kathleen Henderson, who was selected from more than 2,000 applicants to have her family history researched and DNA tested alongside the series' well-known guests.

Additional Support Materials:

AFRICAN AMRICAN LIVES 2 MULTIMEDIA EDUCATION PACKAGE

A guide and DVD, exploring the themes and ideas presented in AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2. The guide is interactive, with information on how to build a family tree, profiles of the 11 individuals featured in the series, and a list of informative resources. Users of the package will learn how to uncover details of their own past, and witness the revelatory moments others have experienced through this process of looking back. The AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 Multimedia Package will place the circumstances of one's history within reach.

Beyond the Color of Fear

Publisher: SpeakOut! The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture
Format: DVD and 4 Lesson Booklets
Runtime: 90 min DVD excerpts and lessons
Captions: No

This is an indispensable resouce for educators, diversity trainers and facilitators. Utilizing this guide, you can design a powerful class or training program that will trigger critical reflection about the issues raised in the film that is both safe and challenging, while advancing critical work to address racism and white privilege.

• Volume I: Covers 25 lessons drawn from the first half of the film and includes a companion DVD. Each lesson corresponds to a video selection, organized for easy viewing and navigation.
• Volume II: Is the complete time-indexed transcript of the documentary,"The Color of Fear."
• Volume III: Is an exclusive interviews by white anti-racism educator Peggy McIntosh with David Christensen and Victor Lewis from "The Color of Fear."
• Volume IV: Includes ten "field reports" from experts with many years of experience teaching with "The Color of Fear." These essays provide in-depth models and information on specific teaching approaches and themes.

Chicano Rock! The Sounds of East Los Angeles

Publisher: Wilkman Productions/PBS
Format: DVD
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: Yes

Narrated by Edward James Olmos, this lively one-hour documentary combines intimate interviews, rare archival film and photographs with exuberant music. Chicano Rock! is also an entertaining and informative journey through more than half a century of America's multicultural past. The story begins with Lalo Guerrero, a National Medal of the Arts honoree known as the Father of Chicano Rock. Arriving in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, Lalo found a city bursting with ambition, even in the last days of the Great Depression. During the war years that followed, many young Mexican Americans defied prejudice and stereotypes, adopting zoot suit fashions and a Spanglish slang called calo. Lalo Guerrero and his friend bandleader Don Tosti captured their spirit in music, mixing swing and boogie woogie in a cross-cultural dialog between African American, Anglo and Mexican American influences.

City on the Edge

Publisher:
Format: VHS
Runtime: 12 mins
Captions: No

This is a short but powerful piece on image of Los Angles, California. The mix of Ultra rich and Permanently poor doesn't help the tourism industry, but the video points out that its almost a self-fulfilling prophesy. The tourism industry keeps people down by paying them horrifically low wages, then complains that not enough people want to see L.A. because of the increasing poverty.

The Color of Fear

Publisher: Lee Mun Wah, Stir Fry Production
Format: VHS
Runtime: 90 mins
Captions: No

The Color of Fear is an insightful, groundbreaking film about the state of race relations in America as seen through the eyes of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino and African descent. In a series of intelligent, emotional and dramatic confrontations the men reveal the pain and scars that racism has caused them. What emerges is a deeper sense of understanding and trust. This is the dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.

Conversation with a Race Traitor, Noel Ignatiev, Day of Absence 1999

Publisher: Evergreen, Noel Ignatiev
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

Noel Ignatiev helped create Race Traitor, a news publication which aims to serve as an intellectual center for those seeking to abolish the white race. It will encourage dissent from the conformity that maintains it and popularize examples of defection from its ranks, analyze the forces that hold it together and those that promise to tear it apart. Part of its task will be to promote debate among abolitionists. When possible, it will support practical measures, guided by the principle, Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. He came to speak on the Day of Absence here at The Evergreen State College.

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Publisher: Bullfrog Films
Format: DVD
Runtime:  83 minutes
Captions: Yes

With unprecedented access into the worlds of active gangs, Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a compelling character-driven documentary which chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture from the genesis of L.A.'s gang culture to the shocking, war-zone reality of daily life in South L.A., the film traces the rise of the Crips and Bloods, and their bloody four-decade long feud. Contemporary and former gang members offer their street-level testimony providing a stark portrait of modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy and family structure, the rules of behavior, the culture of guns, death and dishonor.

Throughout the film ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists, and academics analyze many of the issues that contribute to South L.A.'s malaise: the erosion of identity that fuels the self-perpetuating legacy of black self-hatred, the disappearance of the African-American father and an almost pervasive prison culture in which today one out of every four black men will be imprisoned at some point in his life.

Finally the gang members themselves articulate their enduring dream of a better life. They provide a message of home and a cautionary tale of redemption aimed at saving the lives of a new generation of kids, not just in South L.A. but anywhere in the world that gang violence exists.

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.

Evergreen Graduation Speech 1998 by Mumia Abu Jamal

Publisher: Evergreen
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

Mumia Abu-Jamal is on death row for crime he says he didn't commit. His pre-recorded message was his representation as graduation speaker to the graduating class of The Evergreen State College of 1998.

Frontline: Secrets of the SAT

Publisher: PBS
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

With legal challenges to affirmative action spreading across this country, Frontline investigated the impact of standardized tests on racial diversity on college campuses.

A Grain of Sand

Publisher: Nobuko, Great Leap Production
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

In a poetic fusion of story, song, and video imagery, Nobuko Miyamoto breaks through the forces of silence in search of her own song.

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.

Long Night's Journey into Day

Publisher: California Newsreel
Format: DVD
Runtime: 91 mins
Captions: No

For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid's rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed. As it investigated the crimes of apartheid, the Commission brought together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. By revealing the past instead of burying it, the TRC hoped to pave the way to a peaceful future.

Long Night's Journey Into Day follows several TRC cases over a two-year period. The stories in the film underscore the universal themes of conflict, forgiveness, and renewal.

Lourdes Arguelles

Publisher: Evergreen, Lourdes Arguelles
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

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

Minorities in the College Classroom

Publisher: Dept. Human Relations
Format: VHS
Runtime: 26 mins
Captions: No

This video illustrates communication problems between faculty and minority students at the college level, which can lead to learning difficulties; and the assumptions or presumptions professors have before getting to know students.

Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible

Publisher: World Trust Educational Service, 2007
Format: DVD
Runtime: 50 mins
Captions: No
Support Material: Study Guide found at http://www.world-trust.org/MWV_CGuide.pdf

This video follows white activists as they discuss the process of transforming their own unconscious racist attitudes. Participants, including Peggy McIntosh, Tim Wise and others, share what actions they took to move through the common first stages of denial, defensiveness, guilt, fear and shame into making solid commitments towards ending racism.

Mo' Betta Education

Publisher:
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

African-American, American Indian, Latino & Asian-American Students Describing the Eurocratic Nature of Public Schools & Their Visions for Change.

New Faces on Main Street

Publisher: Newist
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

New Faces on Main Street, an hour-long investigative documentary, provides a contemporary perspective of the situation of Latino and among refugees and immigrants; why they originally came to the United States and how they are surviving in middle size and smaller communities in the Midwest. It hopes to dispel some commonly held beliefs and stereotypes about the Hmong and Latino cultures. New Faces on Main Street utilizes first person accounts of immigrants and refugees and testimonies of other people in their communities.

Rabbit in the Moon

Publisher: Emiko Omori, Sundance Film Award Winner
Format: VHS
Runtime: 85 mins
Captions: No

A documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the World War II interment of the Japanese American community. Interwoven is the story of two sisters, both former internees, filmmaker Emiko Omori and writer Chizuko Omori, who questioned the absence of this vital history in their lives while searching for the memory of their mother. Includes historical footage and accounts from Japanese American who experienced interment and fought against it."

Race in the Classroom: A Multiplicity of Experience

Publisher: Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning & Office of Race and Minority Affairs
Format: VHS
Runtime: 19 mins
Captions: No

Five vignettes depicting moments in college courses when racial and cultural dynamics become a major factor in teaching and learning. Each vignette is based on an actual classroom incident. These scenes do not offer specific answers, but are intended instead to spark discussion on these important and difficult issues. Co-produced with the Harvard Office for Race Relations and Minority Affairs."

Race: The Power of an Illusion

Publisher: California Newsreel
Format: VHS
Runtime: 56 mins each
Captions: No

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.

Yet race still matters. Just because race doesn't exist in biology doesn't mean it isn't very real, helping shape life chances and opportunities.

Episode 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.

Episode 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."

Episode 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.

By asking, What is this thing called 'race'?, a question so basic it is rarely asked, Race - The Power of an Illusion helps set the terms that any further discussion of race must first take into account. Ideal for human biology, anthropology, sociology, American history, American studies, and cultural studies.

Reverend James Lawson at Evergreen Hall I

Publisher: The Evergreen State College
Format: DVD
Runtime: 60 minutes
Captions: No

Reverend James Lawson Jr.’s lecture 5/5/08 at The Evergreen State College Lecture Hall I.

Reverend James Lawson at Temple Beth Hatfiloh

Publisher: The Evergreen State College
Format: DVD
Runtime: 120 minutes
Captions: No

Reverend James Lawson Jr’s talk at the Temple Beth Hatfiloh on 5/5/08.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Trinity Church of Christ, National Press Club Morning News Maker 4/28/08

Publisher: Federal News Service
Format: DVD
Runtime: 53 minutes
Captions: No

National press club speaker breakfast with the reverend dr. Jeremiah Wright, senior pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois topic: the African-American religious experience moderator: Donna Leinwand, reporter, USA today, and vice president of the national press club location: the national press club, Washington, D.C. time: 9:00 a.m. EDT date: Monday, April 28, 2008

Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America

Publisher: Teaching Tolerance
Format: VHS
Runtime: 40 mins
Captions: No

Spanning three centuries, this resource explores the history of intolerance in America and our country's ongoing struggle to live up to its ideals of liberty, equality and justice for all.

Through documentary footage and eyewitness reports, students are given a powerful perspective on historical events from the ordinary people who lived through them.

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.

The Sun Behind The Clouds

Format: DVD

Publisher: Zeitgeist Films

Runtime: 79 Minutes

Captions: Yes

Languages: English, Tibetan & Mandarin

 A provocative and potent look at The Dalai Lama's ceaseless struggle for justice recognition for the Tibetan people, The Sun Behind The Clouds focuses on the pivotal and particularly tumultuous events of 2008. From Buddhist monks' protest in Lhasa on the 50^th anniversary of the Chinese invasion and the four-month march of exiled Tibetans through India to the Tibetan border, to the Beijing Olympics and the raucous talks between the Dalai Lama's representatives and the Chinese government, the film uncovers the growing rifts between younger Tibetans and their most respected spiritual leader.

 While His Holiness advocates for the political autonomy within China rather than secession from it, a younger generation within Tibet has grown impatient and begun to chart a more confrontational course. Following the Dalai Lama's political life with unprecedented personal access, Tibetan filmmaker Tenzing Sonam and co-director Ritu Sarin, bring an impassioned focus to the myriad complexities in fining a peaceful solution based on compromise and dialogue.

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 Great Pinoy Boxing Era

Publisher:  Center for Asian American Media
Format: DVD
Runtime: 31 mins
Captions: No

Filipino men came to the U.S. not only as farm laborers, but as prize-winning boxers during the ‘20s and ‘30s. Experience the greatest era in sports for Filipinos through the only documentary ever made on the era. Come to know the Pinoy heroes who were symbols of pride and hope for equality in an unwelcoming America. This documentary also reveals contributions by Filipinos to the international boxing technique.

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.

Trouble the Water

Publisher: A Zeitgeist Film
Format: DVD
Runtime: 96 minutes
Captions: No

This astonishingly powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine) weave this insider’s view of Katrina with a devastating portrait of the hurricane’s aftermath.

Trouble the Water takes Audiences on a journey that is by turns heart stopping, infuriating, inspiring, and empowering. It’s not only about the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, but about the underlying issues that remained when the floodwaters receded-failing public schools, records high levels of incarceration, poverty, structural racism and lack of government accountability.

Viva La Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History

Publisher: Collision Course Video
Format: VHS
Runtime: 1 hour
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.

Yellow Apparrel: When the Coolie Becomes Cool

• Publisher: getupstandup productions
  Format: VHS
  Runtime: 31 mins
  Captions: No

When does one cross the line between appreciation and appropriation? Between supporting the struggle for social justice and objectifying the struggle into a fashion trend? yellow apparel: when the coolie becomes cool, a 31-minute documentary produced by Ethnic Studies 128 students Anmol Chaddha, Naomi Iwasaki, Sonya Zehra Mehta, Muang Saechao, and Sheng Wang, helps answer these questions.