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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Tulia, Texas
  name:
    name part: Herrman, Cassandra
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Whalen, Kelly
    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 54 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: The story of a small town's search for justice and the price Americans pay for the war on drugs. Through its scrupulous investigation of a landmark case, Tulia, Texas uncovers the deep-rooted assumptions about race and crime that still permeate our society and undermines our justice system. The film convincingly shows how the 'war on drugs' has become a war on due process, waged against African Americans. Today America has the largest prison population in the world; in some states as much as 15 percent of the black male population is incarcerated. Tulia, Texas shows one reason why. The film tells the story from multiple points of view, presenting the evidence in the order in which it came to light, putting viewers in the same position as the jury, judging the credibility of the prosecution's case. Then, as new facts surface after the trial, the audience is forced to question its own beliefs about the criminal justice system and the disproportionate number of African Americans it convicts. Tulia appears to be a typical American small town located in the Texas Panhandle. Vacant storefronts line a Main Street straight out of the 1950's, suggesting that Tulia has been left behind by the tidal economic and cultural changes of the past fifty years. It has a small African American community, known as "Black Town", originally made up of agricultural laborers, since displaced by modernization. Many local black youth are unemployed; good jobs are still closed to them and some have turned to drugs. But it was only when drug use was perceived to have "crossed the tracks" to white neighborhoods that Tulia's civic leaders became alarmed. Here, as throughout the country, black youth became scapegoats for simmering white anxiety over social forces beyond their control and comprehension. In response to drug hysteria fanned by the media and politicians, Tulia's sheriff called in a federally trained undercover agent, Tom Coleman, to conduct a sting operation. In a July 1999 dawn raid,…
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2008.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Coleman, Thomas Roland
  subject:
    topic: False arrest
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Tulia
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination in criminal justice administration
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Tulia
  subject:
    topic: Drug traffic
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Tulia
  subject:
    topic: Crime and race
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Police corruption
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Tulia
  identifier: 1139779 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 150528
    record change date: 20260324182013.5
    record identifier: in00003586808
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng