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Last showing - "I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO" documentary film

In only 1 location: Electric Cinema - Shoreditch, 64-66 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DP,

 Sunday 16th July 2017, at 14:45

Click on link for additional info

THE

DIASPORA

Some notable and unfamiliar personalities who have marked and are marking their time and or their communities in the 20th and 21st centuries; Issues within our communities; Political Activism; Documentaries; Films and Books you cannot ignore.

 

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

 

Personalities
Movements and Perspectives

Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), South Africa

Black Liberation Theology, USA

Black Nationalism, USA

Black Power, USA

Civil Rights, Brazil

Civil Rights, England

Civil Rights, USA

Griot movement, Haiti

Nation of Islam, USA

Negrismo, Hispanic Caribbean

Négritude, France

Noirisme, Haiti

Pan Africanism, England

The Harlem Renaissance, USA

 

 

Documentaries, Films and Books

12 years a slave, 2013, Steve McQueen - film

500 Years Later, 2008, Owen ‘Alik Shahadah – documentary

Africans of the Diaspora, The Evolution of African Consciousness and Leadership in the Americas, (From Slavery to the 1920s), 2000, Vincent Bakpetu Thompson – book

Ali,2001, Michael Mann, film

Batouala, 1921, René Maran – book (French)

Before they Die, 2008, The True Story of the Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Riot and their Quest for Justice – documentary

Black People in the British Empire, 1988, Peter Fryer – book

Britain’s forgotten slave owners, 2015, BBC2 – documentary

Chocolat, 2016, Roschdy Zem – film (French)

Comment est perçue l'Afrique aux Antilles ? (The image of Africa in the French Caribbean islands), 2015, audio documentary (French)

Gifted Hands, 1996, Ben Carson – book

Glory, 1989, Edward Zwick – film

Hidden figures, 2016, Theodore Melfi – film

Islam’s Black Slaves, 2002, Ronald Segal – book

Journey to Freedom, 2013, Willow Hale - film

La France Noire, 2011, Pascal Blanchard – book; Noirs de France, documentary (French)

Les Derniers Maîtres de la Martinique, 2009, Romain Bolzinger – documentary (French)

Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and his Experience of Slavery in South Carolina, 1847, Zamba Zembola – book

Night of Fire, The Black Napoleon and the Battle for Haiti, 1994, Martin Ros – book

Noirs dans les camps Nazis (Blacks in Nazi camps), 2005, Serge Bilé – book (French)

Paroles d’Esclaves : les derniers témoignages (Slave narratives, Last memories), 2011, Serge Bilé – book, (French) 

Roots, 1976, The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley – book and 1977, miniseries

Rue Cases Negres, 1983, Euzhan Palcy – film (French)

Salute, 2008, story recounting the famous 1968 ‘Black Power Salute’ given by gold medallist Tommie Smith and John Carlos – documentary

Selma, 2015, Ava DuVernay – film

The Bible, it explains the birth of all the nations, tribes, tongues and peoples – book

The Birth of a Nation, 2016, Nate Parker - Film

The Black Diaspora, 1995, Ronald Segal – book

The Book of Negroes, 2007, Lawrence Hill – book and 2015, miniseries. For the historical document, follow this link “Book of Negroes

The Great Debaters, 2007, Denzel Washington – film

The Help, 2009, Kathryn Stockett – book; The Help, 2011, Tate Taylor – film

The Oxford Companion to Black British History, 2007, David Dabydeen, John Gilmore and Cecily Jones – book

The Purple Colour, 1982, Alice Walker – book

Tula: The Revolt, 2013,Jeroen Leinders film

When We Ruled, 2007, Robin Walker – book

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, 2003, James Allen – documentary

 

 

Issues

 

  • Africa

 

Comment est perçue l'Afrique aux Antilles ? (The image of Africa in the French Caribbean islands), 2015, RFI radio  debate (French)

  • Hair

 

Good Hair, 2009, Chris Rock – documentary

My Nappy Roots, A Journey Through Black Hair–itage, 2008, Regina Kimbell – documentary

 

  • Mixed race/ Black–White relationships

 

Black inter-racial relationships, 2012, XewXew TV - documentary

 

  • Religion

Black Church Inc., 2013, Moguldom Films – documentary

  • Reparations

 

The Big Questions – Reparations, 2014, BBC1, TV debate

Juliette Sméralda : les réparations de l'esclavage, (debate on reparations) 2014, Zouk TV, TV debate (French)

 

 

  • Skin: whitening and colour discrimination

 

Décapante beauté noire, 2012, Sony Michael Mina – documentary (French)

Dark Girls, 2012, Bill Duke - documentary

Skin bleaching in Jamaica, 2013, Angles TV – documentary

Qui veut être noir au Brésil ? (Who wants to be black in Brazil?), 2014, Joana Gorjão Henriques – documentary (Portuguese with French subtitles)

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