| Description |
1 online resource (84 min.) |
| Series |
Ethnographic video online, volume 2 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014) |
| Event |
Recorded in 2002 in Brownsville, NY |
| Notes |
This edition in English |
| Subject |
Race relations.
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Social history.
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social history.
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Race relations.
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Social conditions.
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Social history.
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| SUBJECT |
Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Race relations
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Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Social conditions
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Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century
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New York (N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Race relations
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New York (N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Social conditions
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New York (State)
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| Subject |
New York (State)
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New York (State) -- New York.
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New York (State) -- New York -- Brownsville.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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History.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Black, Laurann, film producer.
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Broadman, Richard, film director, film producer, screenwriter.
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Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), publisher.
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