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Hatch-Billops collection. Take your bags / a film by Camille Billops.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Billops, Camille, director.
Third World Newsreel (Firm), publisher, film distributor.
Series:
Academic Video Online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Art, African--Influence.
Art, African.
Africans--America--Ethnic identity.
Africans.
African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans.
Slavery--Social aspects.
Slavery.
Slavery--Psychological aspects.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Short films.
Experimental films.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (11 minutes)
Other Title:
Take your bags
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, 1998.
Language Note:
In English.
System Details:
video file
Summary:
My take on slavery: When the Africans boarded the ships bound for America, they carried in their bags all their memories of home. When they arrived in the New World, their bags had been switched, and in them they found nigger, beast, slave ... Many generations later, the children of these Africans toured the Museum of Modern Art to see the sculptures and art of Picasso, Braque and Matisse. Lo! There were the beautiful icons of their ancestors, the images that had been stolen from their bags. --Camille Billops.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020).
OCLC:
1191033816
Publisher Number:
ASP5064993/marc

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