Tulia, Texas : a film /
Drug use was a fact of life in the African-American community of Tulia, Texas--but when it became common in white neighborhoods, too, civic leaders grew alarmed. In 1999 they brought in an undercover agent, later found to be a racist with a criminal record, to conduct a sting operation. Dozens of bl...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English; closed-captioned. |
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[San Francisco, CA] :
California Newsreel,
[2008]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Drug use was a fact of life in the African-American community of Tulia, Texas--but when it became common in white neighborhoods, too, civic leaders grew alarmed. In 1999 they brought in an undercover agent, later found to be a racist with a criminal record, to conduct a sting operation. Dozens of black citizens were rounded up, given perfunctory trials, and handed down unusually stiff sentences of up to 99 years behind bars. This program profiles the Texas sting operation that seemed to be more of a war on blacks than a war on drugs, examining the ties between race, poverty, and the criminal justice system that the incident implies. (54 minutes) A streaming videorecording. |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as a documentary film in 2007. Broadcast as an episode of Independent Lens on February 10, 2009, on PBS. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (54 min.)) : sound, color |
| Production Credits: | Editor, Linda Peckham, Kenji Yamamoto ; camera, Cassandra Herrman ; music composer, Mike Semple. |