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The following videos are available to SDSU faculty, staff and students upon request. Call 619-594-6464 or email Gena Wagner.

• A Place At The Table (40 minutes) — 
  History and identity through the eyes of today’s youth. “The American Dream is something that everyone, everywhere, somehow seems to understand — this radical idea of creating one country from every kind of people from every corner of the earth with liberty and justice for all. It’s very beautiful, but it’s also very difficult. And it’s up to us to make this dream come true.”
  
  
• A Question of Color (58 minutes) — 
  The first documentary to confront “color consciousness” in the black community. It explores the devastating effect of a caste system based in how closely skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal. It provides a unique window for examinating cross-cultural issues of identity and self-image for anyone who has experienced prejudice. This film is particularly sensitive to the special burden color consciousness imposed on women. Darker skinned women recall how they felt devalued and desexualized because of the bias in favor of European standards of beauty. Lighter skinned women reveal the pain of exclusion and ridicule because of their presumed sense of superiority. Evocative footage recalls how the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960’s attempted to place a positive value on African physical and cultural characteristics. But comments by young people indicate that the color problem lingers.
  
  
• A Time for Justice — America’s Civil Rights Movement (38 minutes) — 
  A Time for Justice depicts the battle for civil rights as told by its foot soldiers. They rode where they weren’t supposed to ride; walked where they weren’t supposed to walk; sat where they weren’t supposed to sit. And they stood their ground until they won their freedom.
  
  
• Academic Freedom vs. Civil Rights — 
  Teleconference with text (optional)
  
  
• Black is... Black Ain’t (88 minutes) — 
  Black Is... Black Ain’t serves as eloquent visual testimony to the fact that African Americans are not, in Alexander’s exacting words, one or ten or ten thousand things. This ground-breaking documentary, the last one crafted by the artful hands of filmmaker Marlon Riggs, identifies and confronts those forces that have attempted to consolidate, reduce, and contain the lives and experiences of African Americans. By naming these forces and marshaling a powerful critique, Black Is... Black Ain’t illuminates the complexities of black life. Rigg’s film thus constructs a cinematic space for ten thousand ways of seeing and understanding blackness in America.
  
  
• Campus Diversity, Student Voices (53 minutes) — 
  This documentary considers what diversity means for students at the University of Michigan. By examining the range of student experience at a public university that promotes the benefits of a diverse student population, this documentary provokes thoughtful and informed discussion of sensitive issues.
  
  
• The Color of Fear (90 minutes) — 
  Is a film about the pain and anguish that racism has caused in the lives of eight North Americans of Asian, European, Latino, and African descent. Out of their confrontations and struggles to understand and trust each other emerges an emotional and insightful portrayal into the type of dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.
  
  
• The Color of Fear — Part Two “Walking Each Other Home” (55 minutes) — 
  Walking Each Other Home is the continuation of The Color of Fear. The new sequel explores in greater depth the intimate relationship that the eight men had with each other — how they felt when they were angry, why they were afraid, and what they discovered about themselves and each other.
  
  
• Crossfire (Dateline) Affirmative Action Video “Chilly Climate” (28 minutes) — 
  
  
  
• Diversity and Cultural Competence with Mary Frances Berry (56 minutes) — 
  
  
  
• Doubles... Japan and America’s Intercultural Children (59 minutes) — 
  September 2, 1945. The instrument of surrender is signed ending the war in the Pacific against Japan. Under the reign of General Douglas MacArthur, Japan enters its first period of occupation. Despite orders forbidding it, fraternization between United States soldiers and Japanese women results in a number of children being born in and out of wedlock. Some of the children were fortunate enough to leave Japan, but many stayed and some were abandoned by both father and mother. As we remember WWII, what has become of these children? Since the end of the war, Japan itself has risen from the ashes to become an economic giant and in contrast, many American women have intermarried with Japanese men producing a new generation of intercultural children who are growing up in both America and Japan. What about the generation of interculturals who can trace their roots back to the turn of the century and even before — where are they today?
  
  
• Ethnic Notions: Black People in White Minds (56 minutes) — 
  Takes a surprising and provocative look at the success and distress of this award-winning documentary which takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history. It traces for the first time the evolution of the deeply rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Loyal Toms, carefree Sambos, faithful Mammies, grinning Coons, savage Brutes, and wide-eyed Pickaninnies roll across the screen in cartoons, feature films, popular songs, advertisements, household artifacts, even children’s rhymes. These dehumanizing caricatures permeated popular culture from the 1920’s to the Civil Rights era and implanted themselves deep in the American psyche.
  
  
• Go Back to Mexico (57 minutes) — 
  America continues to lose the battle against illegal immigration. In 1992, 2.5 million illegal immigrants came here — how long can it go on? And how real are the fears about economic cost and social and political disruption?
  
  
• In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality (45 minutes) — 
  A documentary video chronicling the people and events surrounding one of the most important civil rights decisions in history. It is designed for middle and high school students, staff, and anyone interested in education and civil rights.
  
  
• Inland Managers: Promoting Diversity (8 minutes) — 
  
  
  
• Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (40 minutes) — 
  On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks sparked a revolution by sitting still. Her simple act of defiance against racial segregation on city buses inspired the African American community of Montgomery, Alabama, to unite against the segregationists who ran City Hall. Over the course of a year, the Montgomery Bus Boycott would test the endurance of the peaceful protesters, overturn an unjust law and create a legacy of mighty times that continue to inspire those who work for freedom and justice today.
  
  
• Mindwalk: A Film for Passionate Thinkers (110 minutes) — 
  Somehow it happens. A conversation begins, then the magic of interaction and the fever of ideas take over. The next thing you know, your train stop is miles back. Or the restaurant is empty and the waiter is gone. Or the sun seeps into your dorm room. You’ve taken a Mindwalk. You’re different than when you began.
  
  
• National Urban League: Overcoming Threats to the Inclusion of Minorities in Higher Education (42 minutes) — 
  
  
  
• National Urban League: Rethinking Affirmative Actions Why Inclusion Matters in America (29 minutes) — 
  
  
  
• Sexual Harassment Issues and Answers (20 minutes) — 
  
  
  
• Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Proactive Approach Toward Prevention (16 minutes) — 
  The Shadow of Hate spans three centuries to examine this country’s ongoing struggle to live up to its ideals of liberty, equality and justice for all. Through documentary footage and eyewitness reports, viewers are given a powerful perspective on historical events from the ordinary people who lived through them.
  
  
• Shattering the Glass Ceiling — 
  
  
• Shattering the Silences (86 minutes) — 
  Takes a surprising and a provocative look at the success and distress of minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at universities from Seattle to New York. These scholars relate poignant stories about the obstacles and challenges on the journey to the ivory tower. There is both humor and pain as these minority voices in the academy tell a double-edged story.
  
  
• Skin Deep (53 minutes) — 
  Skin Deep takes us on a journey into the hearts and minds of young people today as they struggle with their country’s racial legacy. With remarkable openness and candor, a diverse group of college students from across the country come together to share their anger, pain, confusion, and hope with each other and with us. This gutsy film encourages self examination and dialogue as it takes us beneath the surface of America’s racial divide.
  
  
• Starting Small — Teaching Children Tolerance (58 minutes) — 
  Starting Small visits five early childhood programs in which teachers and children are building classroom communities that promise a brighter future for all of us. Through documentary footage, teacher interviews and commentary from child-development experts, viewers will learn why more and more early childhood educators have come to recognize that teaching tolerance outright in the curriculum is as fundamental and far-reaching as teaching children how to read.
  
  
• TEACH — Inspiration is the Greatest Teacher (35 minutes) — 
  This powerful and moving documentary chronicles the first year of four young teachers as they fight the real fight: educating our children, one child at a time. TEACH shows the human side of this story, and the determination and commitment it takes to survive their first year in America’s toughest schools.