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Ae Fond Kiss DVD

Casim Khan is the beloved only son of devout, first generation Pakistani immigrants and due to marry his beautiful cousin Jasmine. Then Casim meets the independent and beautiful Roisin, an Irish Catholic schoolteacher. Repercussions reach far and wide as cultures clash and personalities collide. Roisin receives little support from her own community and Casim has to deal with the shame and heartbreak that he has brought on his family.  Paul Laverty's screenplay unfortunately isn't available, but this is still en excellent picture of contemporary multicultural Britain.
  • Directed: Ken Loach
  • Starring: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle
  • Widescreen
  • Running time: 103 minutes
  • Subtitle option: English
  • Extras: Ken Loach Interview, “Making of” etc.
  • 9780313332401

    African American Issues

    A serious and professional presentation of the background and pros and cons of major issues that affect the lives of African Americans:

    The major issues for African Americans today, such as poverty, low graduation rates, high rates of out-of wedlock births, and high rates of incarceration, are of critical importance. This volume provides a solid basis for students to understand and debate 9 crucial issues in the context of both the past and present. These issues are slavery reparations, crime and punishment, cultural assimilation, affirmative action, school vouchers, standardized tests, welfare-to-work, stereotypes, and election reform. The history of slavery, segregation, and racism continue to impact African Americans and the rest of American society. For the students of today, born after the major gains of the Civil Rights Movement, this book will reveal how much more progress is still needed. They will find an historical overview of the issues, learn about the main players, and read about the different sides. Under the topical chapters, readers will be able to consider the fuller spectrum of news items, such as whether Bill Cosby's famous comments about African Americans are on target, and what can be done about the voting disenfranchising that exists in practice in the current US political system. Hardback (185 pages). Author: Kevin D. Roberts

    Level: A/Interdisciplinary projects/Library-Depot

    SECONDRUN052

    All White in Barking/Men of the City DVD

    Two documentaries from Marc Isaacs:
    All White in Barking
    (2007) examines the attitudes the white citizens of Barking have towards the immigrants living in the area. These attitudes generally involve prejudices which focus on what clothes the immigrants wear, the religion they follow and the food they eat.
    Men of the City (2009) follows a trader, a street-sweeper, an immigrant and an insurance agent in London as they attempt to move forward in the economic crisis and discover their place in the capital city.

    • Director: Marc Isaacs
    • Running time: 133 minutes
    • Subtitle options: none
    HVACR642

    Architects of Civil Rights DVD

    This documentary looks at the prominent figures in the Civil Rights movement, who worked and sacrificed for a better society. Among those profiled are Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and inspired the other architects of the movement; Martin Luther King, who led the march on Washington and inspired millions; and Coretta Scott King, a remarkable community leader in her own right, who continued to work tirelessly for Civil Rights even after the tragic assassination of her husband in 1968.

    • Running time: 60 minutes.
    0582437806

    Atlas of Slavery

    James Walvin maps the history of slavery from ancient to modern times and provides a concise commentary that deepens our understanding of slavery and its impact on global history. Walvin's atlas reminds us of the magnitude of the task that faced those who sought – and still seek – to eradicate slavery. Despite the wide-ranging atrocities of the twentieth century, the Atlantic slave system continues to hold a horrible fascination. In this book Walvin looks at slavery in the Americas in the broadest context, taking account of both earlier and later forms of slavery. The relationship between the critical continents, Europe, Africa and the Americas, is examined through a collection of maps and related text, which puts the key features of the history of slavery in their geographical setting. Walvin shows how the people of three widely separated continents were brought together into an economic and human system that was characterized both by violence and cruelty to its victims and huge economic advantage to its owners and managers. We may think of slavery as a largely bygone phenomenon, but it is a practice that continues to this day, and the exploitation of vulnerable human beings remains a pressing contemporary issue. A great resource from which the teacher can easily pull relevant sections.
    Contents: Introduction — 1. Slavery in a global setting — 2. The Ancient World — 3. Overland Trade Routes — 4. European slavery and slave trades — 5. Exploration and the spread of sugar — 6. Europeans, slaves and West Africa — 7. Britain, slavery and the slave trade — 8. Africa — 9. The Atlantic — 10. Crossing the Atlantic — 11. Destinations — 12. Arrivals — 13. Brazil — 14. The Caribbean — 15. North America — 16. Cotton and the USA — 17. Slave Resistance — 18. Abolition and Emancipation — 19. East Africa and the Indian Ocean — 20. Slavery after abolition — 21. Chronology
    (146 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet etc./A Teacher's resource for projects in co-operation with history/Library/Depot
    0195098366

    Behind the Mask of Chivalry

    The Making of The Second Ku Klux Klan
    A major study placing the great revival of The Klan in the 20s in the context of race, religion, class and gender. For students writing papers. (310 pages)
    0552774456

    Brick Lane

    In this tale of two Muslim sisters, Monica Ali explores their different lives and how they shape their fates. Nazneen, married off in her teens to an older man, lives in a tower block in London’s East End, keeping house and rearing children. Nazneen does what is expected of her, but into that fragile peace walks Karim, raising questions of longing and belonging that open her eyes. Her sister Hasina finds heartbreak with a “love marriage” back home in Bangladesh. (496 pages)
    Level: Students writing papers/Linjefag

    OPTD1149

    Brick Lane DVD

    Based on Monica Ali's novel:
    A young Bangladeshi woman arrives in 1980s Britain to an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a middle-aged man, Nanzeen finds it hard to accept her circumstances but tries to survive all that life throws at her. She is soon forced to face reality when fate takes a hand in the shape of young, hotheaded Karim.

  • Directed by: Sarah Gavron
  • Starring: Tannishtha Chatterjee & Christopher Simpson
  • Running time: 97 minutes
  • Subtitle option: English
  • Widescreen
  • Extras: “Exploring Brick Lane”, Commentaries, Interviews etc.
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    Bradford Riots DVD

    Dramatisation of the riots in 2001 from the perspective of a group of young Asian men whose lives, families and community have been defined and decimated by these events. First-hand research within Bradford's Pakistani community examines the Muslim community from the inside to see how it lived and breathed before mass violence blew up on its street. More than a hundred Asian youths were convicted for involvement in the Bradford disturbances. The majority handed themselves in to the police, pleaded guilty and had no relevant previous convictions. Most were sentenced to between four and six-and-a-half years.
    • Director: Neil Biswas
    • Starring: Sacha Dhawan, Haider Mohammed Javed, Victor Banerjee, Manjinder Virk
    • Running time: 75 minutes
    • Widescreen
    • Subtitle option: English
    C4DVD10201

    Britz (2 discs) DVD

    Television drama about two young British Muslims, brother and sister, whose experiences post 9/11 drive them in opposite and conflicting directions. Sohail, an undergraduate law student, joins MI5 and is soon undercover investigating a possible terrorist cell. Meanwhile, his sister Nasima, a Leeds medical student, soon becomes disillusioned and bitter at the state's constant targeting of her local Muslim community.

    • Director: Peter Kominsky
    • Running time: 235 minutes
    • Widescreen
    • Subtitle option: English
    9781405874359

    Civil Rights Movement

    This is an accessible but thorough introduction to the Civil Rights Movement. The civil rights movement was probably the most important reform in American history. This book tells the extraordinary and often bloody story of how tens of thousands of ordinary African-Americans overcame long odds to dethrone segregation, to exercise the right to vote and to improve their economic standing. Organized in a clear chronological fashion, the book shows how concerted pressure in a variety of forms ultimately carried the day in creating a more just society for African-Americans.

  • Provides a detailed discussion of the racism that accompanied slavery in America and then consigned African-Americans to an inferior position
  • Addresses the roles of  racists, liberals, and reformers and radicals
  • Discusses local reformers who laboured for years to get the movement off the ground
  • Provides documents covering the most important aspects of the modern civil rights movement
  • Maps and Photographs, a Glossary, Chronology, a Who's Who, and a Guide to Further Reading

    Author: Professor Bruce J. Dierenfield. (179 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet/SRP/Interdisciplinary projects with History

    CONTENTS: Chronology; Who’s Who; Glossary; Maps. PART ONE The Mississippi Plan: 1. Jim Crow South. PART TWO The New Negro: 2. Origins of the Movement; 3. The Brown Decision; 4. Little Rock Crisis. PART THREE Freedom Bound: 5. Montgomery Bus Boycott; 6. Sit-Ins; 7. Freedom Ride; 8. Battle Of Ole Miss; 9. Bombingham; 10. March On Washington. PART FOUR The Movement Fractures: 11. Freedom Summer; 12. Bloody Sunday. PART FIVE The Dream Deferred: 13. Black Power; Assessment. PART SIX Documents: 19 documents, for instance: Brown v Board of Education; Martin Luther King's ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’; Mississippi voter registration form, early 1960s; Graph of poverty status by race, 1939-1994. Further Reading.

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    Dr. Martin Luther King DVD

    A documentary which uses rare film footage and photographs to chronicle the life of Martin Luther King and the Civil Right's Movement. Explores how King's ideas, beliefs and methods evolved against the background of the rapidly changing Civil Rights situation.
  • Running time: 60 minutes
  • Extras: Two rare speeches, Civil Rights Timeline etc.
  • 9781847670946

    Dreams from My Father

    In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir (written even before Barack Obama had won his seat in the Senate), the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. The story begins in New York, where Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father — a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man — has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and his divided inheritance — first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read which illuminates not only Obama's own journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history and what makes us the people we are. (442 pages)
    Level: Library/Depot/Interdisciplinary projects/SRP

    1854593137

    East is East

    Ayub Khan-Din's bestselling play: It’s 1970 in the North of England.The Khan children are caught between their conservative Pakistani father and their tolerant English mother — and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world. Very successful on stage in England and an excellent film.(76 pages)
    Level: B+C.
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    East is East DVD

    Based on Ayub Khan-Din's bestselling play:
    Salford, 1971 — Pakistani chip shop owner George Khan lives with his white wife Ella and their seven children. George wants to raise his children as devout Muslims, but things go wrong when his eldest son Nazir flees his arranged marriage halfway through the ceremony. Undeterred, George plans a marriage for his son Tariq, but when Tariq discovers what is happening he rebels against his father, and the future of the family is plunged into doubt.
  • Directed by: Damien O’Donnell
  • Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry 
  • Running time: 92 minutes
  • Subtitle option: English
  • Extras: Director's Commentary, Interviews etc.
  • 9781439186817

    For Colored Girls

    “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”

    Ntozake Shange's poetic drama (or dramatic prose poem, call it what you will) has been hailed as a classic from its birth in 1975, through success on Broadway, and now to the film version (with Kimberly Ellis, Janet Jackson, Koretta Devise, Whoopi Goldberg). It has inspired audiences all over the America. The twenty “poems” about seven women reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. In 1975 The New Yorker praised it for “encom­passing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had”. This is the complete text, with stage directions. An uncompromising, groundbreaking and passionate work. Author: Ntozake Shange. (112 pages)
    Level: 2nd and 3rd Years of the Gymnasium etc.

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    For Colored Girls DVD

    *NEW IN NOVEMBER 2011*

    Based on the poetic drama by Ntozake Shange:
    This film portrays the residents of one Harlem apartment building. As the women grapple with the everyday ups and downs of work, relationships, finances and family, they must also face the intertwined issues of racial and sexual prejudice and discrimination.

    • Directed by: Tyler Perry
    • Starring: Kimberly Ellis, Janet Jackson, Koretta Devise, Whoopi Goldberg
    • Running time: 133 minutes
    • Widescreen
    • Subtitle option: English
    • Extras: Documentary material, interviews, making of etc.
    PHE9354

    Goodbye Bafana DVD

    South African film based on the memoirs of Nelson Mandela's prison guard on Robben Island. James Gregory is a Xhosa-speaking Afrikaaner with the usual distaste for blacks, especially political blacks. When he's told to guard Mandela, he's less than enthusiastic. The two gradually come to an understanding due especially to Mandela's stoic belief that he is right – that Apartheid can never and should never work. This is a tough and claustrophobic picture of a man in ideological change.
    • Directed by: Billie August
    • Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert
    • Running time: 113 mins
    • Subtitle option: English
    9781849541251

    Hate

    *NEW IN DECEMBER 2011*
    My Life in the British Far Right

    Matthew Collins was just another white face from a council estate with nowhere to go and nothing to do. The violence and racism of the far right offered him an alluring escape from the mediocrity of school, work and boredom. In 1980s Britain, the belligerent sentiments of a few hundred lonely white men went almost unnoticed. But this tiny minority had grand designs. Fuelled by alcohol and violence, they built a party that would go on to hold seats in council chambers across England and in the European Parliament. And hidden behind those large union flags were individuals – including Matthew Collins – prepared to bomb and kill to make their dreams a reality. This book shows how the far right attracts working-class people damaged by the system and encourages them to express their anger at other members of society. It shows how fascists exploit some of the most vulnerable people in society – young working-class men with limited prospects – and gives them a sense of belonging, worth and comradeship. It charts the dissolution of the National Front and the rise of the British National party – making clear its violent, Nazi and anti-parliamentary origins. Author: Matthew Collins. (336 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet etc. / A Teacher's Resource

    1840188502

    Homeland

    Europe Award-winning writer Nick Ryan describes his six-year journey into the terrifying arena of white nationalism and right-wing extremism around the world (including Scandinavia). This book covers more than the Anglo-Saxon world, but that also means there are lots of possibilities for comparisons. Meet people around the world united in their loathing of the multicultural modern world — political zealots, white supremacists, thugs, neo-Nazis, mad preachers and smooth politicians. Paperback. (319 pages)
    Level: students writing papers or as a sourcebook for teachers to photocopy (B/A).
    0822307723

    Hooded Americanism

    “The History of The Ku Klux Klan”
    This edition is from 1987, but it is still a classic study of the whole history of the Klan, its nature, objectives, development and members. For students writing papers. (489 pages)
    9781557046703

    Hotel Rwanda (screenplay and essays)

    This book, edited by director Terry George, includes essays on the history of the genocide, the complete screenplay written by Keir Pearson & Terry George, and more than 70 historical photos and film stills:
    In 1994, as his country descended into madness, Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager of a Belgian-owned luxury hotel in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, used cunning and courage to save 1,268 people from certain death while the rest of the world closed its eyes. Outside about 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsi, were being slaughtered by machete-wielding Hutu, the country's majority. His story inspired Terry George, to make the extraordinary film, Hotel Rwanda. The complete screenplay of the film makes up the main part of this film.
    The book also contains several essays:  Terry George and co-screenwriter Keir Pearson's stories of their three-year struggle to gain support and financing; a brief history of Rwanda with details on the actual events portrayed in the movie;  journalist Nicola Graydon's report on joining Paul Rusesabagina when he first returned to Rwanda on the tenth anniversary of the genocide; writer Anne Thompson's personal journal of her visit to the set in Africa; the transcript of the PBS Frontline documentary revealing the afterthoughts of officials who chose not to listen to the cries for help. In addition there is a timeline of the crisis and a further reading and viewing list. (256 pages)
    Level: All levels of the gymnasium/Good interdisciplinary possibilities
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    Hotel Rwanda DVD

    The screenplay by Keir Pearson and Terry George is available:
    1994. Outside the Rwandan city of Kigali, Hutu extremists are slaughtering their Tutsi neighbours along with any Hutu moderates who may get in their way. Despite the fact that his wife, Tatiana and her family are Tutsis, Hutu Paul Rusesabagina — the manager of the luxurious Mille Collines Hotel — is still trying to do his job. As the violence escalates, guests and staff are evacuated and Red Cross workers deliver more and more ophans to the hotel. Rusesabagina resoolves to do everything in his power to keep the Hutu forces as bay ...
  • Directed by: Terry George
  • Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo & Nick Nolte 
  • Running time: 117 minutes
  • Subtitle option: English
  • Widescreen
  • Extras: Commentaries, “A Message for Peace”
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    Human Being Died that Night

    Forgiving Apartheid’s Chief Killer
    When Eugene de Kock, commanding officer of the apartheid death squads, was sentenced to 212 years for crimes against humanity, the black South Africans outside Pretoria's supreme court cheered and danced. The killer who had been nicknamed ‘Prime Evil’ by his own men would stay behind bars until the day he died. But one woman, plagued by awkward questions about the nature of vengeance and forgiveness, decided to look into the monster's heart and found a man worthy of a pardon and freedom. During many hours of conversation, de Kock and Pumla Gobodo-Madikezela, a clinical psychologist from the townships, take a remarkable shared journey into what it means to be human.  (139 pages + Appendix, Notes etc.)
    Level: A/B
    9780142406014

    if you come softly

    Both Elisha (Ellie) and Jeremiah (Miah) attend Percy Academy, a fancy private school in Manhattan, where neither quite fits in. Ellie is wrestling with family demons, and Miah is one of the few African American students. He feels good inside his skin in his own Brooklyn neighbourhood but is not so sure he fits in at the academy. It’s a surprise when he meets Ellie during the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock and after that they know they fit together — even though she’s Jewish and he’s black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that’s not what matters. They fall in love and their relationship begins to blossom — but they are hesitant to share their newfound happiness with their friends and families, who will not understand. Finally, life makes the brutal choice for them: Jeremiah is shot and killed for not stopping when the police call him back, and Ellie has to cope with the consequences. Author: Jacqueline Woodson. (181 pages)
    Level: C/1st Year of the Gymnasium

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    In the Land of the Free DVD

    In the Land of the Free is a documentary that examines the story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King, three members of the Black Panther movement. They are known as the Angola 3 and have spent almost a century between them in solitary confinement in Angola, the Louisiana state penitentiary. Herman and Albert are still held in solitary confinement after thirty seven years, accused of a murder it has never been proved they committed, while Robert campaigns tirelessly for their release. In America ... today. How could this be?

    • Director: Vadim Jean
    • Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson
    • Running time: 84 minutes
    • Subtitle options: none
    9780737744170

    Is Racism a Serious Problem? (At Issue)

    Has the racism debate outlived itself? Or do racial minorities in the United States still face serious problems of racial discrimination? Editor: Aarti D. Stephens. (126 pages)
    Level: Mainly Second and Third year Gymnasium

    Contents: Introduction; Prejudice Is a Natural Tendency That May Be Overcome (Mark Buchanan); The Perception of Racism Has Eclipsed Actual Racism (Shelby Steele); Diversity Cannot Be Mandated to Communities (James Q. Wilson); Environmental Harm Disproportionately Impacts the Poor and Minorities (Leyla Kokmen); Racism Is a Significant Problem in the Penal System (Stuart Taylor, Jr.); African Americans Are Disadvantaged Due to Poverty and Inequality (Michael B. Katz and Mark J. Stern); Latinos Face Discrimination Based on False Health Concerns (Geraldo Rivera); The War on Terrorism Has Increased Bias Against Muslims (Peter W. Singer); School Desegregation Needs Improvement (Gary Orfield, Erica Frankenberg and Liliana M. Garces); Affirmative Action Should Be Changed (Peter H. Schuck); Science Is Sometimes Used to Justify Racism (William H. Tucker); Reparations for African Americans Must Move Forward (Crystal L. Keels); Organizations to Contact; Bibliography; Index.

    Sample Pages (PDF)

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    Jungle Fever DVD

    *NEW IN SEPTEMBER 2011*

    The Spike Lee film: This critically acclaimed film explores the provocative consequences of inter-racial relationships. Black architect Flipper Purify begins an affair with his working-class Italian Secretary, which causes them to be scrutinised by their friends, cast out from their families and shunned by their neighbours in this moving view of inner-city life.

    • Directed by: Spike Lee
    • Starring: Wesley Snipes; Annabella Sciorra; Spike Lee; Anthony Quinn; Halle Berry; Samuel L. Jackson
    • Running time: 126 mins
    • Subtitle options: Danish, Norwegian, English
    • Widescreen
    • Extras: Featurette; Cast & Filmmaker's Biographies; Production Notes etc.
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    Mandela DVD + CD + Book

    “Mandela – Son of Africa”: Filmed over the seven months leading up to the historic 1994 presidential elections in South Africa, this Oscar-nominated documentary looks at both the life of Mandela the leader, and the spirit of Mandela the man. There are interviews with and narration by Mandela himself. Chapters: Growing Up Xhosa — Rite of Passage — Escape to the Big City — Political Awakening — Rise to Leadership — On Trial /Armed Resistance — Robben Island — Winnie Banished — The World Takes Notice — Release — Transition to Democracy — Black President.
  • Directed by Jo Menell & Angus Gibson
  • Running time: 118 mins
  • Subtitle options: none
    Also in the box:
  • A CD “The Essential Music of South Africa” (Vusi Mahlasela, The Manhattan Brothers, Brenda Fassie, Johnny Clegg, The ANC Choir, The Special AKA etc.)
  • A booklet by Robin Denselow about the life of Mandela (illustrated with dozens of photos etc.)
  • A National Geographic poster/map illustrating the life of Mandela
  • 9780199219353

    Mandela: A Critical Life

    Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. What are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? Did Mandela deliberately create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This highly praised biography examines these questions in detail. It presents a range of fresh insights about the shaping of Mandela's personality and public persona, from his childhood days and early activism, through his long years of imprisonment, to his presidency of the new South Africa. The book emphasizes the interplay between Mandela's public career and his private world and shows how his heroic status was a product both of his leading position within the anti-apartheid movement and of his own deliberate efforts to supply a form of quasi-messianic leadership for that movement. Mandela's huge international appeal is described as a compelling and unusual cocktail: of the sacred and the secular — of traditional African values and global media savvy — and of human vulnerablilty, interwoven with the grand narrrative of liberation. Author: Tom Lodge (274 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet/Library/Depot

    Contents: 1. Childhood and Upbringing;  2. Becoming a Notable;  3. Volunteer-in-Chief;  4. Making a Messiah;  5. Trials;  6. Prisoner 466/64;  7. Leading from Prison;  8. Messianic Politics and the Transition to Democracy;  9. Embodying the Nation

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    Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream DVD

    Excerpts from the most famous modern African-American Civil Rights spokesman's best-known speeches, including King's Selma speech (March 8, 1965); his renowned Lincoln Memorial “I Have a Dream” address (August 28, 1963); his eloquent eulogy for Bobby Kennedy (April 4, 1968); and King's prescient last speech (April 3, 1968), in which he seemed to speak of his own impending death.

  • Running time: 71 mins
  • Subtitle options: none
  • 0571202543

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    A play that gives you an authentic taste of Britain today as seen through the eyes of Hanif Kureishi who is half-Pakistani.
    “My Beautiful Launderette” is a story of the meeting of British and Pakistani cultures in London — a story of narrowness and intolerance, but also a story of growing understanding, communication and even love. The story revolves around Omar and Johnny’s efforts to turn a delapidated launderette into “Powders” — my beautiful launderette. NB! New cheaper Faber Classics edition of the screenplay, but with the same pagination as the old edition. (67 pages)
    Level: B/A.
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    My Beautiful Laundrette DVD

    30% Discount until the 1st of September!

    Screenplay by Hanif Kureishi:
    Omar is a young Asian man whose new responsibility is to vamp up his uncle's launderette. With the help of Johnny, an old school friend and ex-National Front thug, Omar begins to succeed in his aim. He and Johnny become lovers, resulting in abuse from Johnny's ex-associates — who are perturbed by his association with “the enemy”.
  • Directed by: Stephen Frears
  • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke
  • Running time: 93 minutes
  • Widescreen
  • Extras: Biographies
  • Subtitle options: none
  • 9780313320026

    Native American Issues

    A serious and professional presentation of the background and pros and cons of major issues that have been controversial in and out of the Native American community:

    Are sports teams named after Native Americans a degrading phenomenon? Are tribal claims on ancestral remains and sacred objects in museums valid? The issues that Native Americans struggle with should be matters of concern for all of us. This volume presents six major divisive issues: Sports Mascots, Names and Images, Native American Treaty Rights, Native American Land Claims, Repatriation of Ancestral Remains and Sacred Objects, Native American Gaming, The Conflict between Economic Development and Environmental Protection. Students will learn about the varied cultural, political, social, and economic dimensions of contemporary Native America and will be prompted to consider the complexity and complications of ethnic and cultural diversity in the United States. This book raises questions about the very foundations of the United States and the rights of its original inhabitants' descendants. The range of issues encompasses Native Americans throughout the country. Views are included from a wide variety of sources, including newspaper op-eds, Supreme Court rulings, and more. A resource guide complementing each chapter includes an extensive listing of suggested reading plus videos/film, Web sites, and organizations. Hardback (185 pages). Author: Paul C. Rosier

    Level: A/Interdisciplinary projects/Library-Depot

    9780199578771

    Oxford Companion to Black British History

    Now in a cheaper edition! The Oxford Companion to Black British History is an essential resource for understanding the long history of black people in the British Isles, from African auxiliaries stationed on Hadrian's Wall in the 2nd century AD to Mary Seacole, the “Black Florence Nightingale”, Walter Tull, footballer and First World War officer ... and our own day. 400+ articles consider key concepts such as Racism, Emancipation, and Reparations; historical events; literature; music; organizations; leading figures; publications; politics; religion; slavery and much more. This book provides a fine overview of the black presence in Britain and its contribution to British society. (562 pages)
    Contents: Introduction; Editors, Advisory Editors, and Contributors; Note to the Reader; Thematic Contents List; A-Z entries; Timeline; Select Bibliography
    Level: Library/Depot (partnership with: Historie)

    9781556528057

    Post Black

    *NEW IN DECEMBER 2011*
    How a New Generation is Redefining African American Identity
    This book describes the new dynamics shaping the lives of African Americans today. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities – such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members of both the working and upper classes – it gives voice to what the author calls ‘post black' approaches to business, lifestyles, and religion. This new black identity is strikingly different from the images handed down from previous generations. It offers new types of behaviour, such as those shown by President Obama, gays and lesbians, young professionals, and black Buddhists. Contending that this new generation feels as unwelcome in traditional black churches as in hip-hop clubs, this provocative book dispels myths about current black identity. Authors: Derek T. Dingle and Ytasha L. Womack. (206 pages)
    Level: 2nd and 3rd Years of Gymnasium / A Teacher's Resource
    9780313339356

    Race Relations in the United States 1900-1920

    In the first decades of the twentieth century, virulent racism lingered from Reconstruction, and segregation increased. Hostility met the millions of new immigrants from Eastern and southern Europe, and immigration was restricted. Still, even in an inhospitable climate, blacks and other minority groups came to have key roles in popular culture, from ragtime and jazz to film and the Harlem Renaissance. This volume has a decade-by-decade organization to help students understand the crucial race relations of the recent past. It provides comprehensive reference coverage of the key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions. The volume covers two decades — coverage for each decade includes Timeline, Overview, Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race Relations by Group, Law and Government, Media and Mass Communications, Cultural Scene, Influential Theories and Views of Race Relations, and a Resource Guide. This format allows comparison of topics through the decades. The style and layout are clear and accessible. Historical photographs, a selected bibliography, and index complement the text. Author: John F. McClymer. Hardback. (173 pages + Introduction)
    Level: Library/Depot — a great resource especially for 2nd and 3rd years of the gymnasium

    9780313338489

    Race Relations in the United States 1920-1940

    Race relations in the 1920s ranged from an epidemic of lynchings of African Americans, race riots, and the execution of Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti to citizenship for American Indians but not for Mexican immigrants. As the 1930s unfolded, there was more discrimination of Latinos and a legal lynching in the Scottsboro Boys trial, and German Jewish children were refused refuge from Hitler's Germany. This volume has a decade-by-decade organization to help students understand the crucial race relations of the recent past. It provides comprehensive reference coverage of the key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions. The volume covers two decades — coverage for each decade includes Timeline, Overview, Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race Relations by Group, Law and Government, Media and Mass Communications, Cultural Scene, Influential Theories and Views of Race Relations, and a Resource Guide. This format allows comparison of topics through the decades. The style and layout are clear and accessible. Historical photographs, a selected bibliography, and index complement the text. Author: Leslie V. Tischauser. Hardback. (173 pages + Introduction)
    Level: Library/Depot — a great resource especially for 2nd and 3rd years of the gymnasium

    9780313342769

    Race Relations in the United States 1940-1960

    The 1940s and 1950s were decades of far-reaching change and mobilization in the United States. White culture strove to make nonwhites invisible with segregation and discrimination as Southern blacks continued the Great Migration north and the government brought in Mexican labor via the Bracero Program to take up labor slack while U.S. troops were overseas. The rise of the civil rights movement and Brown v. Board of Education (which struck down segregation in schools 1954) were some results. This volume has a decade-by-decade organization to help students understand the crucial race relations of the recent past. It provides comprehensive reference coverage of the key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions. The volume covers two decades — coverage for each decade includes Timeline, Overview, Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race Relations by Group, Law and Government, Media and Mass Communications, Cultural Scene, Influential Theories and Views of Race Relations, and a Resource Guide. This format allows comparison of topics through the decades. The style and layout are clear and accessible. Historical photographs, a selected bibliography, and index complement the text. Author: Thomas J. Davis. Hardback. (173 pages + Introduction)
    Level: Library/Depot — a great resource especially for 2nd and 3rd years of the gymnasium

    9780313341717

    Race Relations in the United States 1960-1980

    Few decades in American history were as full of drama and historical significance as the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1960s, a revolution in race relations occurred, seeing the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, the American Indian Movement, and the Latino labour movement. The focus in the 1970s was on carrying out the reforms of the previous decade, with the resulting white backlash. This volume is a source to help students understand the crucial race relations of the recent past. It provides comprehensive reference coverage of the key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions. The volume covers two decades — coverage for each decade includes Timeline, Overview, Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race Relations by Group, Law and Government, Media and Mass Communications, Cultural Scene, Influential Theories and Views of Race Relations, and a Resource Guide. This format allows comparison of topics through the decades. The style and layout are clear and accessible. Historical photographs, a selected bibliography, and index complement the text. Author: Thomas Upchurch. Hardback. (180 pages + Introduction)
    Level: Library/Depot — a great resource especially for 2nd and 3rd years of the gymnasium

    9780313343117

    Race Relations in the United States 1980-2000

    In the 1980s, many Americans began to believe that racial problems and institutional discrimination were a thing of the past, but the race issue turned out to be as divisive and powerful as it had ever been. Major events related to race included the Reagan/Carter presidential race, Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign, the Tawana Brawley case, and President George H. W. Bush's manipulation in his 1998 presidential campaign of convict Willie Horton. The 1990s saw the Immigration Act of 1990 allowing more Asians into the United States, the Anita Hill testimony against the first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, and the Million Man March. This volume has a decade-by-decade organization to help students understand the crucial race relations of the recent past. It provides comprehensive reference coverage of the key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions. The volume covers two decades — coverage for each decade includes Timeline, Overview, Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race Relations by Group, Law and Government, Media and Mass Communications, Cultural Scene, Influential Theories and Views of Race Relations, and a Resource Guide. This format allows comparison of topics through the decades. The style and layout are clear and accessible. Historical photographs, a selected bibliography, and index complement the text. Author: Timothy Messer-Kruse. Hardback. (173 pages + Introduction)
    Level: Library/Depot — a great resource especially for 2nd and 3rd years of the gymnasium
    0340907053

    Race Relations in the USA 1863-1980 (Access to History)

    Excellent for students and teachers. Readable and easy to find your way around in with good coverage of the latest historical interpretations.
    This is a detailed account of the history of Black, Hispanic, Native and Asian Americans since the American Civil War and illustrates the changing nature of the political, social and economic struggles throughout this period. Particular attention is paid to the role of individuals such as Booker T Washington, Harry Truman and Martin Luther King, as well as examining the roles of government and other organisations in influencing the changes, progress and regressions which characterise the history of race relations. (192 pages)
    Level: Library/Depot/Students writing papers/Projects together with History
    9781861684868

    Racial and Ethnic Discrimination (Issues)

    (Replaces Racial Discrimination)

    Britain is a multiracial society, with 63% of people in a recent survey saying that they mixed with others from a different ethnic or religious background socially. However, discrimination is still experienced by many of those belonging to minority ethnic and religious groups. What are the causes of racial intolerance, and how can it be tackled? This title examines the issues.

    Chapter One: Racial Discrimination
    Frequently asked questions, Public attitudes to race and religion in Britain, What is race discrimination?, Institutions must catch up with public on race issues, Race equality in the UK, Racism, Hate crime, Press reporting of violent crime fuels racism, Say what you like, we have to get past this ‘humour’, Whatever happened to free speech?, Higher-tier test entry for Black Caribbean pupils, White children have lower educational aspirations, Religion and nationality – the new ‘race’?, Racial discrimination at work, Race inequality increasing in the UK workforce, Equality Bill criticised by employers as unrealistic, New plans for achieving race equality in the UK, Is Black History Month still relevant?, Gypsies and Travellers experience racism, Rise in anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe, Rise in anti-Semitic attacks, Britain’s forgotten race victims?

    Chapter Two: Ethnicity and Identity
    Multiculturalism – a cause for celebration, Cultural identity, Society damaged by policies on multiculturalism, Second generation, The rise of mixed-race Britain, I have no doubt what colour I am, Letters: Identity is about more than black or white, ‘Myths’ threaten racial harmony, Rivers of blood survey, Discrimination undermines sense of belonging, Diversity in primary schools promotes harmony, Education the solution to racism, Images of Islam in the UK, Contribution of faith communities.

    Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources (websites etc.);  Index

    9781861685063

    Racial Discrimination (Issues Today Vol 29)

    A recent survey found that 63% of people mix with others from a different ethnic or religious background socially. However, many people belonging to ethnic and religious minority groups still experience discrimination in the UK. What are the causes of racism and how can it be tackled? This book looks at racial discrimination and multiculturalism in Britain.  At the end of each chapter are two pages of activities relating to the articles and issues raised in that chapter.
    Level: 8.-10. kl./AVU + HG C-F etc.


    Key Facts;  Glossary (web links at the end of most articles)

    9780737750942

    Racial Profiling (At Issue)

    Does racial profiling by the police help to prevent crime? Or is it a disease, a form of discrimination, and a threat to democracy? One that invites a negative reaction from its victims? Is it necessary to ensure security? Should Latinos be profiled as potential drug traffickers? Muslims as potential terrorists? Click “Flere oplysninger” to view the Contents. Editor: Kathy Hahn. (90 pages)
    Level: Mainly Second and Third year Gymnasium
    9780192805904

    Racism: A Very Short Introduction

    From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly established? Why do so few people actually admit to being racist? How are race, ethnicity, and xenophobia related? Racism: A Very Short Introduction incorporates the latest research to demystify the subject of racism and explore its history, science, and culture. It sheds light not only on how racism has evolved since its earliest beginnings, but also explores the numerous forms of racism, highlighting the paradox of its survival, despite the scientific discrediting of the notion of 'race' with the latest advances in genetics. (194 pages) Author: Ali Rattansi.

    Contents: Introduction; 1. Racism and racists: some conundrums; 2. Fear of the dark? : blacks, Jews and barbarians; 3. Beyond the pale: scientific racism, the nation and the politics of colour; 4. Imperialism, eugenics and the Holocaust; 5. The case against scientific racism; 6. New racisms?; 7. Racist identities: ambivalence, contradiction and commitment; 8. Beyond institutional racism: 'race', class and gender in the USA and Britain; Conclusions: prospects for a post-racial future; References; Further Reading

    CDR42340

    Raisin in the Sun (2008) DVD

    30% Discount until the 1st of September!

    Based on Lorraine Hansberry’s play and screenplay:
    Life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is hard. This is the new film version from 2008.
  • Directed by: Kenny Leon
  • Starring: Sean Coombs, Phylicia Rashad & Audra McDonald
  • Subtitle options: Danish, Norwegian, English
  • Widescreen
  • Extras: “Dreams Worth While”, Commentary
  • 0451183886

    Raisin in the Sun (Screenplay)

    Available again!! Lorraine Hansberry’s own screenplay that was turned into a moving film in 1961. Based on her Broadway play. The story of a black family who move into an all-white neighbourhood in Chicago. They fight to preserve their dignity and sense of self as the family is threatened with dissolution by the forces of racism and greed. (206 pages)
    Level: B
    0573614636

    Raisin in the Sun (Stage play)

    *NEW IN APRIL*
    This is Lorraine Hansberry’s original Broadway play. The story of a black family who move into an all-white neighbourhood in Chicago. They fight to preserve their dignity and sense of self as the family is threatened with dissolution by the forces of racism and greed. Samuel French edition. (132 pages + background material)
    Level: B
    CDR13218

    Raisin in the Sun DVD

    30% Discount until the 1st of September!

    Based on Lorraine Hansberry’s play and screenplay.
  • Directed by: Daniel Petrie
  • Starring: Sidney Poitier
  • Running time: 123 mins
  • Extras: Documentary material
  • Widescreen
  • Subtitle options: English/Danish/Norwegian
  • 9780747266839

    Secret Life of Bees

    Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens who has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yeams for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When Rosaleen insults three of the town's fiercest racists and is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father, they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three eccentric black beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world and the transforming power of love, as about the mystery surrounding her mother. Author: Sue Monk Kidd. (374 pages)
    Level: 2nd and 3rd year of the Gymnasium

    3848901000

    Secret Life of Bees DVD

    Based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd:
    In 1964 in South Carolina Lily Owens is the fourteen-year-old daughter of a fruit farm owner who is violent and abusive towards her. Her mother died in a horrific accident when Lily was a toddler, and she is cared for by her black nanny, Rosaleen. When Rosaleen ends up in jail after getting in trouble with a group of racist men in their local town, Lily frees her and the pair run away together, ending up at a honey farm owned by the Boatwright sisters, August , June and May. Lily is taken on by the sisters as a beekeeping apprentice, and eventually discovers that her new family has deep and unexpected connections with her late mother.
  • Starring: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Paul Bettany
  • Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood
  • Running time: 105 mins
  • Subtitle options: Danish, Norwegian, English
  • Widescreen
  • Extras: Commentaries; Featurettes; The Women and the Men; Inside the Pink House etc.
  • 9780552547635

    Skin I'm In

    Seventh-grader Maleeka Madison is miserable when a new teacher comes to her American inner-city school. Miss Saunders is self-assured in spite of the white birthmark across her black skin, and gets into kids' faces about both their behavior and their academic potential. Although Maleeka is bright, she is swamped by her problems. Maleeka's mother has just emerged from two years of mourning for her dead husband. In that period her daughter had to provide her with physical and moral support with no adult assistance. At school, Maleeka has to put up with mean-spirited teasing about the darkness of her skin and her unstylish clothing. She finds escape in creative writing (encouraged by Miss Saunders) and also in the company and protection of a powerful clique of nasty girls, who exploit her. She understands too well that her brains aren't as valuable as the social standing that she doesn't have. In the end, she is able to respond positively to Miss Saunders and she also becomes socially accepted through the affections of the most popular boy in the school. This message rings true in spite of the fact that Maleeka's salvation isn't exactly politically correct. Students will appreciate Flake's authenticity and perhaps learn from her struggle for security and self-assurance. Author: Sharon Flake. (188 fairly short pages)
    Level: 9.-10.kl./D-C/1.g/1.HF

    ARTF0155

    Soundtrack for a Revolution DVD

    Tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music — the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality. Features new performances of the freedom songs by top artists; archival footage; and interviews with civil rights foot soldiers and leaders. Freedom songs evolved from slave chants, from the labor movement, and especially from the black churches. Music was crucial in helping the protesters as they faced down brutal aggression with dignity and non-violence. The infectious energy of the songs swept people up and empowered them to fight for their rights. This film celebrates the vitality of this music. There is testimony from some of the pioneers of the Civil Rights movement (folk singer/activist,Harry Belafonte and many others),as well as new performances of some of the music that shaped a nation by The Roots, John Legend, Joss Stone, Wyclef Jean, Richie Havens & The Blind Boys Of Alabama etc., as well as original film footage of the songs being sung by the people who were clamoring for social change.

    • Directed by: Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman
    • Running time: 82 minutes
    9780140390032

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic novel of American slavery – from 1852. This is the complete edition with a long introduction.. (629 pages)
    Level: A/Linjefag
    9781846590436

    White Family

    The Whites are an ordinary British family: love, hatred, sex and death hold them together, and tear them apart. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Alfred White, a London park keeper, still rules his home with fierce conviction and an inarticulate tenderness that has estranged his three children. May, his clever, passive wife, loves Alfred but conspires against him. Their three children are no longer close; the successful elder son, Darren, has escaped to the USA. But family ties are strong, and when Alfred collapses on duty one day, they rush to be with him. His beautiful, childless daughter Shirley, who lives with Leroy, a black social worker, is brought face to face with Alfred's younger son Dirk, who hates and fears all black people. The scene is set for violence. In the end Alfred and May are forced to make a big decision: does justice matter more than kinship? This excellent novel takes on the taboo subject of racial hatred as it looks for the roots of violence within the family and within British society. This is a novel that reminds us that racism not only damages the lives of its victims, but also those of its perpetrators. An excellent novel of contemporary Britain. Author: Maggie Gee. (413 pages)
    Level: A/Linjefag

    1588260321

    White Supremacy & Racism In the Post Civil-Rights Era

    An academic work about the current state of racial attitudes in the USA. The New Racism is a particularly relevant chapter. Mostly for the teacher. (222 pages)
    Level: Library/Depot; Students writing papers
    9780737737004

    White Supremacy Groups (At Issue)

    This book looks at the new generation of white supremacists who seem respectable in their business suits but are reaching a dangerously wide audience – especially through their exploitation of the popular fear of immigration. Two articles also look at the situation in Europe. Editor: Mitchell Young. (119 pages)
    Level: Mainly Second and Third year Gymnasium

    Contents: Introduction; White Americans Must Build Separate Communities (John Hunt Morgan); In an Era of Racial Revolution, Whites Need to Regain Group Solidarity (Sam Francis); Nationalist Parties Defend European Culture Against Immigrant Attack (Kyle Rogers); The Belgian Nationalist Party Promotes Extremism and Xenophobia (Angus Roxburgh); Whites Feel Threatened by the Booming Hispanic Population (Roberto Lovato); Hardcore Racists Exploit Concern Over Immigration to Gain Recruits (Chip Berlet); Whites Should Work Together to Advance Their Interests (Jamie Glazov and Jared Taylor); The New White Supremacists Mask Racism with Pseudo-Intellectualism (Dennis Roddy); Women Play a Subordinate but Vital Role in White Supremacist Groups (Kathleen M. Blee); Women are Gaining Leadership Roles in White Nationalist Organizations (Lisa Turner with Russ Nieli); Behind an Innocent Facade White Supremacist Singers Spread Hate (Earl Ofari Hutchinson); Christian Identity’s Bizarre Beliefs Lead to Extreme Violence (Anti-Defamation League); White Racialists Should Lead Honorable White Lives (Robert S. Griffin); Organizations to Contact; Bibliography; Index.

    Sample Pages (PDF)