Title Brownsville, black and white / Nighttime Films ; produced and directed by Richard Broadman

Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 83 min.) Summary This poignant and powerful documentary explores the complex history of interracial cooperation, urban change, and social conflict in Brownsville, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, from the 1930s to the 2000s. A case study of the tragedy of urban American race relations, the film recounts the transformation of Brownsville from a poor but racially harmonious area made up largely of Jews and blacks to a community made up almost entirely of people of color. In the 1940s Brownsville was famous for its grass-roots integration. But it later achieved notoriety for one of the most divisive and bitter black-white confrontations in American history, the 1968 Ocean Hill Brownsville School War, in which the African-American (and Hispanic) community battled the predominantly white and Jewish Teachers Union. Brownsville Black and White examines some of the most troubling and perplexing issues facing America and its cities and raises a multitude of discussible questions. The film will provoke reflection, analysis, and debate in a variety of courses in sociology and social issues, American history and American studies, African American studies, urban studies, race relations, cultural anthropology, Jewish Studies, and education Notes Title from title frames Credits Cinematography, Nick Doob, Ted Reed ; music, Frank Wilkinson, Eugene Friesen ; edited by Richard Broadman Performer Narrated by Janice Gray Event Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2002 Notes Closed captioned Subject Jews -- United States. Psychology -- Race identity Social sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural anthropology Social conditions. Race relations. Jews. SUBJECT Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) -- History Subject New York (State) -- New York -- Brownsville. New York (State) -- New York. United States. Genre/Form Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Nonfiction films. History. Documentary films. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Documentaires. Films autres que de fiction. Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives. Form Streaming video Author Broadman, Richard, producer, director. Gray, Janice, narrator. Doob, Nick, cinematographer. Nighttime Films (Firm)

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