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Euzhan Palcy
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Euzhan Palcy
Ruby Bridges
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5 editions published between 1998 and 2004 in English and held by 1,200 libraries worldwide When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
Rue Cases-Nègres Sugar Cane Alley
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14 editions published between 1983 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 748 libraries worldwide The teenage life and adventures of young José, who lives in a shanty-town on Martinique in the mid-1930s, comprises the body of this film. José lives with his grandmother and is well aware of the French colonial presence. He gets into mischief, learns valuable lessons on living from an old former slave, drinks too much one time, and even sets fire to one of the run-down shanties. Regardless of his pranks, José never neglects his education.
A dry white season
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10 editions published between 1989 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 360 libraries worldwide Teacher Ben du Toit sees himself as a caring and just person. When his gardener's son is beaten up by police at a demonstration by black children, he sees that society is built on a foundation of prejudice.
Aimé Césaire a voice for history = une voix pour l'histoire
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3 editions published between 1994 and 2006 in French and held by 326 libraries worldwide This series introduces the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term "negritude" and lauched the movement called the "Great Black Cry." This three part study features many of the most important and artistic intellectual figures of the past six decades.
Rue Cases-Nègres
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22 editions published between 1983 and 2010 in French and held by 110 libraries worldwide A poor sugar-cane-plantation worker in Martìnìnque makes many sacrifices to ensure a better life, through education, for her eleven-year-old orphaned grandson.
Rue Cases-Nègres Sugar Cane Alley
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5 editions published between 1983 and 1995 in French and held by 70 libraries worldwide A poor sugar-cane-plantation worker in Martininque makes many sacrifices to ensure a better life, through education, for her eleven-year-old orphaned grandson.
Aimé Césaire une voix pour l'histoire = Aimé Césaire, a voice for history
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2 editions published in 2006 in French and held by 69 libraries worldwide A three-part documentary about Martinican poet Aimé Césaire. "The first part covers the poet's life, works and political action. Aimé Césaire takes the audience on a tour of his beloved Martinique. [The second part deals with] the ethics, the theory and the philosophy of negritude in its beginnings. Césaire reflects on his various Parisian encounters with intellectuals ... as well as his encounter with Africa through the mediation of Léopold Sédar Senghor. [The third part attempts to answer the questions,] how does one find "the strength to face tomorrow" after the disappointments of decolonization, the failures in the Third World, the "ills of development" [--and the strength to face] the planetary crisis?"--Container.
Aimé Césaire : a voice for history. I, The vigilant island
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2 editions published between 1994 and 2005 in French and held by 45 libraries worldwide Part 1 or a 3 part series on the Martinique author, Aime Cesaire, introduces Cesaire, his wife Suzanne who founded in 1939 the seminal literary review, Tropiques, a journal which influenced Caribbean intellectuals and spawned the Negritude Literary Movement. After WWII, Cesaire served as mayor of Fort-de-France and Martinique's representative in the French National Assembly during the crucial years of decolonization. He discusses the difficulty of balancing the life of a poet with that of a practical politician for over 50 years.
Aimé Césaire a voice for history. III, The strength to face tomorrow
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1 edition published in 1994 in French and held by 42 libraries worldwide In Part 3 or this 3 part series Cesaire responds to the disappointments of the post-colonial world and expresses his hopes for the future. In the 1960s his plays were among the first to warn of the dangers of neo-colonialism. French anthropoligist Edgar Morin, biographer Roger Toumson, novelist Maryse Conde and American writer Maya Angelou and others testify to Cesaire's central role as a "founding ancestor" for the current flowering of African Diaspora literature.
Aimé Césaire a voice for history. II, Where the edges of conquest meet
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1 edition published in 1994 in French and held by 41 libraries worldwide Part 2 or this 3 part series moves to Paris in the 1930s where Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, first president of Senegal, and the French Guyanese poet, Leon Damas developed the concept of Negritude, a world wide revindication of African values. After WWII the Negritude movement centered around a French publishing house, Presence Africaine, which attracted the support of progressive French intellectuals including Pablo Picasso, Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre.
Screenwriters on screenwriting
by Ally Acker
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3 editions published between 1991 and 2006 in English and held by 34 libraries worldwide Includes interviews with screenwriters: Euzhan Palcy, Jay Presson Allen, Harriet Frank Jr., Fay Kanin and Margarethe Von Trotta along with clips from some of their films.
The killing yard
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3 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 21 libraries worldwide "The Attica prison riots of 1971 left 10 guards and 39 inmates dead and marked a bloody chapter in American history. This is the true story of Shango, an African-American inmate used by the authorities as a scapegoat to cover a conspiracy that would permeate to even New York state Governor Nelson Rockefeller"--Container.
Rue Cases Nègres
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7 editions published between 1982 and 2001 in French and held by 16 libraries worldwide 1930, Martinique. José, orphelin de 11 ans, est élevé par sa grand-mère qui rêve de le faire quitter la Rue Cases-Nègres pour qu'il aille étudier... Un mode de vie rarement représenté au cinéma...
Sugar Cane Alley
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3 editions published between 1990 and 2004 in French and held by 14 libraries worldwide A poor sugar cane plantation worker in Martinique makes many sacrifices to ensure a better life, through education, for her 11-year-old grandson.
Aimé Césaire, une voix pour l'histoire
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4 editions published between 1994 and 1999 in French and Undetermined and held by 6 libraries worldwide
A dry white season
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4 editions published between 1987 and 1990 in English and French and held by 5 libraries worldwide Een blanke leraar in Zuid-Afrika wordt betrokken bij de mishandeling van een zwarte door de politie en moet zijn inmenging duur bekopen.
Aimé Césaire a voice for history
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3 editions published between 1994 and 2006 in French and English and held by 5 libraries worldwide L'ÎLE VEILLEUSE = The vigilant island: La vie, l'oeuvre et l'action politique du poète. Aimée Césaire nous fait découvrir sa Martinique -- AU RENDEZ-VOUS DE LA CONQUETE = Where the edges of conquest meet: L'éthique, la théorie et la philosophie de la négritude. Les différentes rencontres de l'étudient A. Césaire à Paris avec des penseurs, des intellectuels; sa rencontre avec l'Afrique par le biais du jeune Senghor -- LA FORCE DE REGARDER DEMAIN = The strength to face tomorrow: Comment trouver la force de regarder demain après les désillusions de la décolonisation, les dérives de la Négritude, les échecs du tiers-mondisme, la "maladie du développement" et ... Face à la crise planétaire? [Conteneur].
Una árida estación blanca = A dry white season
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5 editions published between 1989 and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 3 libraries worldwide
Aimé Césaire, une parole pour le XXIème siècle
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2 editions published in 2006 in French and held by 3 libraries worldwide
Aimé Césaire a voice for history. 3, The strength to face tomorrow
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4 editions published in 2006 in French and held by 2 libraries worldwide Part 2 or this 3 part series moves to Paris in the 1930s where Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, first president of Senegal, and the French Guyanese poet, Leon Damas developed the concept of Negritude, a world wide revindication of African values. After WWII the Negritude movement centered around a French publishing house, Presence Africaine, which attracted the support of progressive French intellectuals including Pablo Picasso, Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. more
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African American school children Apartheid Authors, Martinican Biographical films Biographical television programs Biography Bridges, Ruby Césaire, Aimé Coles, Robert Collection Tropiques Documentary films Drama Families Fanon, Frantz,--1925-1961 Feature films Feature films Fiction films Fiction television programs Films Films for the hearing impaired France Historical films History Intellectual life Interviews Juvenile works Lesser Antilles--West Indies, French Literature Louisiana--New Orleans Made-for-TV movies Made-for-TV movies Martinique Motion pictures Negritude (Literary movement) Plantation workers Political and social views Political science Poor children Poor families Race awareness Race relations School integration Senghor, Léopold Sédar,--1906-2001 Social history South Africa Sugarcane industry Surrealism (Literature) Theater--Political aspects United States Video recordings--for the hearing impaired
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English (38) German (4) Spanish (4) Multiple languages (2) Undetermined (2) No Linguistic content (1) Miscellaneous languages (1) Covers
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