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  title info:
    title: Homecoming
  name:
    name part: Gilbert, Charlene
    role:
      role term: film director.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: Homecoming is the first film to explore the rural roots of African American life. It chronicles the generations-old struggle of African Americans for land of their own which pitted them against both the Southern white power structure and the federal agencies responsible for helping them. Director Charlene Gilbert weaves this history together with a fond portrait of her own Georgia farming family into what she calls, "A story of land and love." Like so much African American history, the Black farmers' story is one of perseverance in the face of prejudice and perjured promises. As part of radical Reconstruction, Congress allotted 45 million acres of land to former slaves but the rapid reimposition of white supremacy meant that little land was ever actually distributed. Despite formidable obstacles, one million African Americans, mostly former sharecroppers, managed to purchase over 15,000,000 acres of land by 1910. This achievement was threatened by the agricultural crisis of the '20s and '30s thatled to a raft of farm foreclosures and, eventually, to the system of federal farm loans and subsidies on which all farmers depend today. But the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture was a white man's club, often working hand in glove with local bankers and big landowners to dispossess Black farmers of their land. For example, during the '30s the Southern Tenant Farmers Union had to force the Farm Security Administration to include African American farmers in their tenant purchase program. It was through this program that the filmmaker's grandfather purchased his land, the farm her cousin now owns. Black farmers are currently suing the U.S.D.A. successfully for discriminatory loan practices over the last three decades. As a result of these policies, there are only 18,000 Black farmers left in America and it is predicted there will be none in the next century. Homecoming, is also a mediation on the unfinished work of redeeming the land African Americans worked as slaves for hundreds of y…
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1999.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Farmers
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Civil war
    topic: History
    temporal: 1861-1865
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Reconstruction
    temporal: 1865-1877
    topic: History
    geographic: United States
  identifier: 1139673 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 150409
    record change date: 20260324180925.3
    record identifier: in00003586344
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng