Documenting the black experience : essays on African American history, culture and identity in nonfiction films / edited by Novotny Lawrence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawrence, Novotny, 1973- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Race relations.

Documentary films--United States--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

"History taught at the elementary, middle, high school and even college levels often excludes significant events from African American history, such as the murder of Emmett Till or the Ku Klux Klan's murder of four black girls in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham which are integral parts of history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Novotny Lawrence

Civil rights. The Scottsboro Boys' experiences as resource to create a more perfect union / Joseph l. Smith

The Clinton 12 and prom night in Mississippi: conversations in integration / Eric Pierson

A national concern: remembering and teaching the death of Emmett Till / Kevin E. Grimm

Fear factor: when black equality is framed as militant winsome / Chunnu-Brayda and Travis D. Boyce

Sports. A "perpetual threat": unforgivable blackness and Jack Johnson as a transmedia sports icon / Michael Graves

From Compton to center court: Venus and Serena and the black female experience in professional tennis / Novotny Lawrence

Electronic media immortalizing Dorothy Dandridge in documentary, African American press and mainstream press / Charlene Regester

"Rated R because it's real": discourses of authenticity in Wattstax / Mike Phillips

A glance at her story: black female documentarians navigating beyond the Theresa / Renee White, Sara Tekle and Melanie Shaw

Documenting grassroots history as a means to social change: 778 bullets, community engagement and the legacy of rural civil rights / Angela J. Aguayo

And beyond: the contemporary black struggle. Sundown nation: living in the aftermath of an American Holocaust / David Rossiaky

Portrait of Jason: a reappraisal / Gerald R. Butters Jr

Dancing as voice: krumping and clowning in rize as black vernacular rhetoric / Joshua Daniel Phillips

Gender, the streets and violence: Ameena Matthews and violence interruptions in the interrupters / Ashley Farmer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786472673

0786472677

OCLC:

890793008