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Showing 1 - 10 of 152 titles with a criteria of Keywords include South America AND Subject is Cultural and Ethnic Studies
South
Chantal Akerman explores the mental and physical landscape of the American South through the horrific modern-day lynching of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas.
Icarus Films | 1999 | 70 minutes | Relevance score: 10.34
Border South
A vivid portrait of Central American immigrants who disappear along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border, exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life, as well as in death.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes | Relevance score: 9.99
Black in Latin America, Ep. 03 Brazil: A Racial Paradise?
In Brazil, Professor Gates goes behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this “rainbow nation” is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.
Pragda Films | 2011 | 60 minutes | Relevance score: 5.92
Black in Latin America, Ep. 04 - Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet
In Mexico and Peru, Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of slavory and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created.
Pragda Films | 2011 | 60 minutes | Relevance score: 5.92
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture in South LA.
Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 83 minutes | Relevance score: 5.13
Black in Latin America, Ep. 01 - Haiti & Dominican Republic: An Island Divided
In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed, while In Haiti, hear the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic.
Pragda Films | 2011 | 60 minutes | Relevance score: 4.89
Norse America
Evidence that the Icelandic sagas were fact not fiction.
Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 56 minutes | Relevance score: 4.86
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie. This title has one or more clips.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 60 minutes | Relevance score: 4.84
Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America
Forbidden to live and love as undocumented and gay in the country he calls home, Moisés Serrano saw only one option, to fight for justice.
Pragda Films | 2016 | 82 minutes | Relevance score: 4.83
Black in Latin America, Ep. 02 - Cuba: The Next Revolution
In Cuba, Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music are linked to slave labor, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in 1959.
Pragda Films | 2011 | 60 minutes | Relevance score: 4.79
