| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 82 min.) |
| Summary |
This award-winning documentary follows street-smart Ivy League students who are outcasts at their elite university, band together and adventure to the enigmatic Caribbean island of Cuba, whose population is 60% Black. Their journey through the streets of Havana and Santiago reveals enthralling scenes of Cuban life including hip hop performances, block parties, and candid spontaneous encounters with AfroCuban youth. As they film their experience, the travelers discover connections between Cuban and American perspectives on human rights, race, and revolution |
| Analysis |
African Studies |
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Documentaries |
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Latin American Studies |
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Race & Class Studies |
| Notes |
In Process Record |
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Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Story, Dalton Jones, Robin J. Hayes ; editors, Michelle Chang, Robin J. Hayes ; camera, Tikunbo Anifalaje [and others] ; research supervisor, Robin J. Hayes ; interviewers, Dalton Anthony Jones [and others] ; music supervisor, Barry Cole |
| Cast |
Travelers: Besenia Rodriguez, Dalton Anthony Jones, Joshua Guild, Tokunbo Anifalaje, Erin Chapman, Robin J. Hayes, Tucker Foehl, Myra Jones-Taylor, Theresa Runstedtler, Alejandro Sánchez de los Reyes |
| Performer |
Narrators/Harlem chorus, Naomi Lorrain, Nasaun Lineszy, Rodney "J Prophet" Reynolds |
| Event |
Originally produced by Progressive Pupil in 2015 |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Yale University -- Students
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| SUBJECT |
Yale University. fast (OCoLC)fst00531886 |
| Subject |
African American college students -- Travel -- Cuba
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African Americans -- Relations with Cubans.
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Black people -- Cuba.
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African Americans -- Relations with Cubans.
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Black people.
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Race relations.
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Students.
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Cuba -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004083
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United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Subject |
Cuba.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Social problem films.
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Documentary films.
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Social problem films.
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Feature films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentaires.
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Films sociaux.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Hayes, Robin J., film producer, screenwriter, film director, editor of moving image work
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Jones, Dalton Anthony, screenwriter
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Lorrain, Naomi, narrator
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Lineszy, Nasaun, narrator
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Reynolds, Rodney, narrator
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Chang, Michelle, editor of moving image work
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Progressive Pupil (Organization)
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