Viewing Race

This is a national video-based project which gives the Commission access to 70 high-quality independent documentary and narrative films that explore race, racism, diversity and tolerance.

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Films and Videos Grouped by Theme

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND COLONIALISM
Bontoc Eulogy First Contact
Lighting the 7th Fire
The Tribal Mind (episode from a series)

JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT
The Color of Honor
Days of Waiting
Family Gathering [also relevant to BI-RACIAL]

BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices Eyes on the Prize (series)
Four Little Girls
Philadelphia, Mississippi
A Time for Justice [can be used as a short alternative to "Eyes on the Prize"]

CHICANO CIVIL RIGHTS
Chicano! (series)
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker's Struggle

U.S. BLACKNESS ABROAD
Don't Hurry Back
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger
Remembering Wei Yi-Fang, Remembering Myself: An Autobiography

BI-RACIAL
Secrets and Lies
Suzanne Bonnar: The Blackburg Connection

RACE AND SEXUALITY Dusk Before Dawn
The Women Outside [also relevant to BI-RACIAL]

EDUCATION Campus Culture Wars Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary This Little Utopia

FEAR AND HATRED
Blood in the Face
The Color of Fear
Do the Right Thing
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Your Money or Your Life

STEREOTYPES
In Whose Honor?
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
My America .

SELF-PERCEPTION
Black is ... Black Ain't
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People [also relevant to YOUTH ORIENTED]
A Question of Color

SELF-REPRESENTATION
Starting Fire with Gunpowder (episode from a series)
The Watermelon Woman

TOWARD A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY
Blacks and Jews
Holding Ground
Making Peace (series)
Race in America: A Message from Los Angeles
Skin Deep

YOUTH ORIENTED
Distant Water
Freckled Rice
Halmani