Brown like dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop / Lotus Fire production ; director, Raeshem Chopra Nijhon.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Nijhon, Raeshem Chopra, director.

Malabar, Chee, performer.

Jugular, performer.

Karmacy, performer.

Abstract Vision Humanity, performer.

Himalayan Project, NY, performer.

Spoken word artist, LA, performer.

Lotus Fire Production, producer.

Indian American Center for Political Awareness, distributor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asian Americans.

East Indian Americans.

Hip-hop.

Rap (Music)--Social aspects--United States.

Rap (Music).

Rap (Music)--Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (33 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Indian American Center for Political Awareness, 2003.

System Details:

VHS - NTSC.

analog

magnetic

VHS

NTSC

Summary:

The documentary, shot in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and New York, gives a voice to South Asian MCs, beatboxers, spoken word artists and producers. With hip-hop as its lens, this documentary is a colorful portrait of the rainbow of political ideals, social messages and experiences that is in part young South Asian Americans today, revealing an emerging layer of this second generation community.

Through their music and their lives these artists speak on everything from racial profiling post-9/11 to identity in second-generation immigrant communities, forcing us to question "traditional" South Asian existence in America in fresh new ways.

Participant:

Abstract Vision Humanity, Chee Malabar from Himalayan Project, D'Lo, Jugular, Karmacy, and MC Kabir.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

OCLC:

63061285