Black American gothic : planting urban roots in iowa /
Independent filmmaker Carla Wilson documents the exodus of black people from the inner-city, tracking folks from Chicago as they migrate west to small-town Iowa City, where they struggle to establish roots. Echoing the early 20th-century Great Migration of blacks from southern states to the Northeas...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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Irvine, CA :
Filmakers Library,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Independent filmmaker Carla Wilson documents the exodus of black people from the inner-city, tracking folks from Chicago as they migrate west to small-town Iowa City, where they struggle to establish roots. Echoing the early 20th-century Great Migration of blacks from southern states to the Northeast and Midwest, this new migration is also about family-friendly housing, jobs, and the search for a better life. Iowa City is a self-identified peaceful community now facing new challenges: supposedly safe havens from urban life are increasingly attractive to the urban underclass, and as a consequence, these communities are compelled to redefine themselves in terms of race, class, and the urban/rural divide. Moving between narrated experience and social scientific data, local and the national scenes, history and immediacy, the documentary profiles a region in transition, providing public administrators, teachers, and private citizens new narratives for self-understanding and action. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed March 28, 2014). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (29 min.). Previously released as DVD. |
| Playing Time: | 00:29:07 |