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Living thinkers : an autobiography of Black women in the ivory tower
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- Creator
- Akosua Productions, Sisters' Eye on Media ; producer/director, Roxana Walker-Canton
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Women Make Movies, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
- video file DVD video
- OCLC
- ocn883674338
- Credits
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- Featuring: D. Soyini Madison, Deborah Gray White, Kariamu Welsh, Delores P. Aldridge, Dianne Diakite, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Allison Dorsey, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Imani Jean Canton, Brianne Baker, Carrie Sampson
- Principal photographer, Tina Morton; editors, Valerie Keller, Roxana Walker-Canton; music composed by Kevin W. Walker, Suzzette Ortiz
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 2013.
- "Living Thinkers ... examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today. Through their diverse narratives, from girlhood to the present, Black women from different disciplines share experiences that have shaped them, including segregated schooling as children, and the trials, disappointments and triumphs encountered in Academia. Though more than 100 years have passed since the doors to higher education opened for Black women, their numbers as faculty members are woefully low and for many still, the image of Black women as intellectuals is incomprehensible. And while overtly expressed racism, sexism and discrimination have declined, their presence is often still often unacknowledged. Through frank and sometimes humorous conversations, this documentary interrogates notions of education for girls and women and the stereotypes and traditions that affect the status of Black women both in and out of the Academy. A perfect companion film for any classroom discussion on the intersection of racism, sexism and/or feminism."--Container.
- DVD-R.
Subjects
- African American women college teachers -- Biography.
- African American women college administrators -- Biography.
- African American women in higher education.
- Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography.
- Women college administrators -- United States -- Biography.
- Women in higher education -- United States.
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- Ethnic relations -- 21st century.
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.