Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (84 min.).
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012341
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
Series Statement:
Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Keywords:
Race relations.
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Social history.
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Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) Race relations. 20th century
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Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions. 20th century
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Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) Race relations. 20th century
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New York (N.Y.) Social conditions. 20th century
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New York (State)
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New York (State)
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France
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Documentary films.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
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Recorded in 2002 in Brownsville, NY.
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Previously released as DVD.
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This edition in English.
URL:
http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2067675
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