BIKO by Peter Gabriel (subtitles)
Kenneth Bancroft Clark (July 14, 1914 – May 1, 2005) and Mamie Phipps Clark (October 18, 1917 – August 11, 1983)[1] were African-American psychologists who as a married team conducted important research among children and were active in the Civil Rights Movement. They founded the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem . Kenneth Clark also was an educator and first Black president of the American Psychological Association.
They were known for their 1940s experiments using dolls to study children’s attitudes about race. The Clarks testified as expert witnesses in Briggs v. Elliott, one of the cases rolled into Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The Clarks’ work contributed to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in which it determined that de jure racial segregation in public education was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the Brown v. Board opinion, “To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone”.
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante named Kenneth Clark on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
Source: Wikipedia
A conversation about race
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Hello! I hope this time you enjoy the video Strangers. We will work on it during our lessons this week. I hope you think and reflect about it.
AFRIKANER BLOOD (Documentary by Ilvy)See link:
AFRIKANER BLOOD (by photographer Ilvy Nj)
Multimedia production by journalist/videographer Elles van Gelder & photojournalist Ilvy Njiokiktjien about the right-wing organization Kommandokorps in South Africa.
White South African teens wrestle with an uncertain identity. An extreme right-wing group is teaching young Afrikaners to eschew Nelson Mandela’s vision of a multicultural rainbow nation. The fringe group Kommandokorps, led by old-apartheid leader Franz Jooste, organizes camps in school holidays where Afrikaner teenagers learn to defend themselves against crime in South Africa. But that’s not all. They learn they are their own people – not South Africans but Afrikaners – that shouldn’t integrate in the new democratic South Africa.
Elles van Gelder
Article about The Lovings.The Guardian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLyEPeWjNk
One of the songs sung by Senead O’connor (the song belongs to Bob Marley,WAR) is also about racism. What do you think about these ways of fighting against racism? What happens at the end of Senead’s concert?. In the song war you can follow the subtitles in Spanish. She changes some of the words for the sentece “child abuse”. What do you think about this way of criticism?
Guardian Africa network
Fantasy Hollywood: restaging classic films with black models
Picture The Underground Railroad by artist Charles T. Webber, 1893
Story of the Undergroun Railroad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40oXJCogrIg
http://www.omarviktor.com/re-mixing
Song Follow the Drinking Gourd
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early-to-mid 19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.[2] The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives.[3] Various other routes led to Mexico or overseas.[4] An earlier escape route running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession (except 1763–83), existed from the late 17th century until Florida became a United States territory in 1821 (and ending the safe haven for escaped slaves was the main reason it changed nationality).[5] However, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the late 1700s, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.[6] One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the “Railroad”.[6]
British North America (present-day Canada), where slavery was prohibited, was a popular destination, as its long border gave many points of access. Most former slaves settled in Ontario. More than 30,000 people were said to have escaped there via the network during its 20-year peak period,[7] although U.S. Census figures account for only 6,000.[8] Numerous fugitives’ stories are documented in the 1872 book The Underground Railroad Records by William Still, an abolitionist who then headed the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.[9]
RIDING the Railroad
lyrics song Follow the Drinking Gourd
Race to Freedom Underground Railroad film 1994
Uncle´s Tom Cabin (summary)by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Journey To Freedom (documentary about …two slavery stories from this century sXXI)
Journey to Freedom is a documentary that brings to life the startling similarities between historic slavery and human trafficking, inspiring today’s freedom fighters. Produced by the National Underground Freedom Center, with support from US State Dept and Google
Eye-Opening Documentaries about Human Trafficking
Call+Response (film)(for adults)
I’m not usually one for hyperbole, but I’m sure the 27 million people living in slavery right now might forgive a little drama. Call+Response is a wonderfully entertaining and enlightening film about the plight of modern-day slaves, from child soldiers in Uganda to child sex workers here in the U.S. It includes musical performances by Moby, Cold War Kids, Matisyahu, Imogen Heap, Switchfoot, Rocco DeLuca, Justin Dillon, Talib Kweli, Emmanuel Jal and Five for Fighting—and Dr. Cornal West steals the show. —Josh Jackson
Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul has committed her life to rescuing and returning home men from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and other Southeast Asian nations who have been sold to Thai fishing companies by human traffickers. Once at sea, these captive men go months, even years, without setting foot on land, earning little to no pay, trapped in a modern form of slavery on the boats and forced to endure horrific and often deadly conditions. Patima and her small team of activists risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find these men, fight for their emancipation and seek justice for them. In the face of illness, death threats, corruption, and complacency, Patima’s fearless determination reveals stories of criminal conspiracy at the heart of the global seafood industry, as she calls on her nation and the world to wake up and take action.
“You and I have to work together to tell this story. If this is going to change, it’s going to take all of us.”
– Patima Tungpuchayakul, film subject, Ghost Fleet
Strange Fruit by Billie Hollidei
