| Description |
1 online resource (29 min.) |
| Series |
Black studies in video |
| Summary |
Independent filmmaker Carla Wilson documents the exodus of black people from the inner-city, tracking folks from Chicago as they migrate west to small-town Iowa City, where they struggle to establish roots. Echoing the early 20th-century Great Migration of blacks from southern states to the Northeast and Midwest, this new migration is also about family-friendly housing, jobs, and the search for a better life. Iowa City is a self-identified peaceful community now facing new challenges: supposedly safe havens from urban life are increasingly attractive to the urban underclass, and as a consequence, these communities are compelled to redefine themselves in terms of race, class, and the urban/rural divide. Moving between narrated experience and social scientific data, local and the national scenes, history and immediacy, the documentary profiles a region in transition, providing public administrators, teachers, and private citizens new narratives for self-understanding and action |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed March 28, 2014) |
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This edition in English |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Iowa -- Iowa City
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African Americans.
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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Iowa -- Iowa City.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Wilson, Carla (Filmmaker)
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