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The angry heart : the impact of racism on heart disease among African Americans / produced and directed by Jay Fedigan.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hartgrove, Keith.
- African Americans--Diseases.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Medical care.
- Racism in medicine--United States.
- Racism in medicine.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Heart--Diseases.
- United States.
- Heart--Diseases--Genetic aspects.
- Heart.
- Heart--Diseases--Social aspects.
- Heart--Diseases--United States.
- Prejudices--United States.
- Prejudices.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Social problem films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (57 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston, Massachusetts] : [Distributed by] The Fanlight Collection, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- African-Americans die from heart disease at disproportionately higher rates than white Americans, yet many in this community are painfully unaware of the scope of the problem. This film spotlights this modern epidemic through the story of 45-year-old Keith Hartgrove, who has already experienced two heart attacks and quadruple bypass surgery. Together with the experts who are interviewed in this important documentary, he analyzes the impact of a wide variety of factors including depression, stress, diet, smoking and other lifestyle issues, but makes clear that, for African-Americans, such factors are inseparable from racism, and from the discrimination, poverty, segregation, substandard education, and day-to-day tensions which racism engenders.
- Participant:
- Featuring Keith Hartgrove.
- Credits:
- Camera, Steve Dahlgren, Jay Fedigan, Keith Hartgrove, Bob Pierce ; editor, Jay Fedigan.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Jay Fedigan, ©2001.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 1, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- fn-angh Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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