Locally Produced Video Cassettes M-R
- Video Tapes, Beginning with letter M
- Video Tapes, Beginning with letter N
- Video Tapes, Beginning with letter O
- Video Tapes, Beginning with letter P
- Video Tapes, Beginning with letter Q
- Video Tapes, Beginning with letter R
VIDEO TAPES, BEGINNING WITH LETTER M
- Mandela Day: A Tribute to Nelson Mandela.
1988. 1 videocassette (45 min.)
Speakers: Wole Soyinka, Sue Mnumchana, Don Barr, Nana Gyamfi. Mandela day was tributed for Nelson Mandela at Cornell campus. Four speakers talked about Apartheid and Mandela's life and struggle. AFR Video 329
Minister Louis Farrakhan. Cornell University,
Africana Studies and Research Center. 1979. 1 videocassette (120 min.)
Videotaped in 1979 at Ramada Inn, Ithaca, New York. Louis Farrakhan
discusses various topics on African-American issues. AFR Video
402
Mother Afrika’s Children: A Poetry Drama Community Theatre Creation.
Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. [n.d.] 1 videocassette (76 min.)
African music, dance, language, clothing and prose are used to convey prevalent themes in African culture. Important issues in African development, and economic growth, and racism are also highlighted. AFR Video 624a
My Search for Africa. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University, Africana Studies and Research Center, 1990. 3 video cassettes
(352 min.)
John Henrik Clarke discusses early awareness of Africana studies in
higher education including his own debate with more contemporary scholars,
as well as international attention to the study of African history.
Also recounts teaching experiences at Cornell University and Hunter
College. AFR Video 249
VIDEO TAPES, BEGINNING WITH LETTER N
- NCBS Conference (National Council for Black Studies). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Africana Studies and Research Center, 1985. 11 video cassettes. AFR Video 121
- The Necessity for Independent Black Institutions. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Africana Studies and Research Center, 1987. 1 video cassette. Speaker: Haki Madhubuti. AFR Video 169
- The Novelist's Freedom vs The Worshipper's Dignity:
The Moral Dilemma of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Cornell
University, Africana Studies and Research Center. 1989. 1 videocassette
(95 min.)
Speaker, Ali Al Amin Mazrui. Videotaped on March, 1 1989 at the Anabel Taylor Auditorium, Cornell University. Ali Mazrui discusses the controversy of Salman Rushdie's Satanic verses, considered blasphemous to Muslims. Mazrui attempts to interpret the anger of Muslims as well as the cultural and comparative censorship between the West and the East. He discusses the differences in the religious political arena and secular political arena. Also discusses his interpretation of Satanic verses, as well as the intent of Rushdie on the Muslim world and Blacks. The religious and racial connotations of the book is also analyzed. AFR Video 409
Now is the Time. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University, Africana Studies and Research Center, 1984. 1 videocassette
(90 min.)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson discussed the plight of Black America and what
must be done in order to change it. Addressed the issue of advocacy
for education instead of jail systems as well as America's role with
foreign nations. AFR Video 586
NYASA 18th Annual Conference. Cornell
University, Africana Studies and Research Center. 1994. 1 videocassette
(170 min.)
Videotaped on April 29-30, 1994. This video shows 18th annual conference
of the New York African Studies Association hosted by Cornell University,
African studies program, April 29-30, 1994. Dramatized poetry readings,
NYASA award, and NYASA distinguished Africanist award were presented,
and keynote address was given by Ali A. Mazrui. The title of the keynote
address is "Afrennaisance: in search of an African vision."
AFR Video 405
VIDEO TAPES, BEGINNING WITH LETTER O
Ogoni Conference. Produced by Wies van Leuken of Amnesty International- Ithaca. Ithaca, N.Y.: Pegasys Access Television Center, 1997. 3 videocassettes (278 min.) AFR Video 343
- Tape #1. Focus on the Ogoni (28:33 min.). Unrepresented nations and peoples (14:05 min.). About my brother- (27:39 min.). Greenpeace on Shell and the Ogoni (22:24 min.)
- Tape #2. Friends of the Earth, Shell & the Ogoni (27:52 min.). Rain Forest Action Network, oil & minority rights (29:45 min.). International agreements for human rights (26:09 min.)
- Tape #3. Reconstructing the Nigerian Federation pt. 1-4 (101 min.)
VIDEO TAPES, BEGINNING WITH LETTER P
- Parental Advocacy and Black Student Achievement
in The Ithaca School System. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Africana
Studies and Research Center, 1995. 1 videocassette (64 min.)
Lucy Brown, born, raised, and currently living in Ithaca, gives pointers for Black parents being advocates for children. Based on her experiences as a student and mother, her tips include tender loving care, parents using their own behavior as a teaching tool, and parents talking with their children. AFR Video 250 - Plain, Black and Decently Wild: Possibilities of
Heroism in Black Women's Fiction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University,
Africana Studies and Research Center, 1982. 1 videocassette (120 min.)
Washington discusses three articles which refer to the situation of Black women in society. AFR Video 444 - A Poetic Voyage into Soul Time. Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 1992. 1 videocassette (84 min.)
Kofi Anyidoho presents his finished collection of poems that provides an insight to current socio-economic and political issues that he outlines in his book. AFR Video 620a - Political and Juridical Viability of Black Reparations. Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 2001.1 videocassette (77 min.)
Adrienne Davis discusses her views on Black reparations using evidence from both the 14th and 13th amendments. She explains the history behind the disenfranchisement of African Americans and the continuous impoverishment of the community. AFR. Video 613a - Politics, Gender and Cultural Production: Roundtable
Discussion with Visiting Scholars in Women's Studies from Jamaica,
Trinidad, Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, and Nigeria. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University, Africana Studies and Research Center, 1991. 1 videocassette
(114 min.)
Discussion among visiting scholars working in gender issues at Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center. AFR Video 178 - Politics and Literature in Africa. Africana
Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 1986. 1 videocassette
(91 min.)
The speaker discusses the relationship between literature and politics in Africa, particularly in his own writing, as well as that between people, economics, and politics. He also reads from some of his novels, particularly,'Devil on the Cross' which he wrote while in prison. AFR Video 418 - Pre and Post Independence Politics & Development
in Africa: Problems & Challenges for the Future. 1988. 1 videocassette
(80 min.)
A well known and celebrated political activist Kojo Botsio speaks about Dr. Nkrumah former leader of Ghana relating his life's work to Africa's post and pre imperialist existence. AFR Video 321 - Pre-Professional Weekend : Where will you go
after Cornell? : Legal, Medical, and Veterinary Professions : Their
Impact on the Minority Community. Conference held, February
22, 1986, Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufman Auditorium, Cornell University.
1 videocassette (120 min.)
This video shows a panel discussion by the professionals in the field of law and midicine. They share their opinions on various issues facing minority students interested in these professions. AFR Video 423
The Prison Industrial Complex: Incarceration and Regimes of Punishment: A Discussion of Angel Davis’ Book Are Prisons Obsolete? Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 2006. 1 videodisc (122 min.)
Speakers take part in a discussion on Angela Davis’ book Are Prisons Obsolete? Participants: James Turner, Professor, ASRC; Robert J. Harris, Jr., Professor, ASRC; Leslie Jones, Lawyer, Ithaca, New York; Kayla Dorsey, Graduate Student, ASRC; Jimmy Kirby, Graduate Student, ASRC; Barry Maxwell, Sr. Lecturer, Comparative Literature. AFR Videodisc 231
The Present Status of the Liberation Movement
in South Africa. Ithaca, NY: [Africana Studies and Research
Center, Cornell University], 1989. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
Fred Dube discusses how the students' movement
became a turning point for the South African liberation. Also discusses
the role of the African National Congress and exploitation of labor
in conjunction with the effect of the students' movement. AFR
Video 416
VIDEO TAPES, BEGINNING WITH LETTER Q
- A Question of Power: Gender, Politics and Cultural
Production in Africa. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Africana
Studies and Research Center, 1992. 6 video cassettes.
Video tapes recorded at the symposium held on March 27-28, 1992 at Cornell University, Africana Studies and Research Center. The topics include: Women in African mask theater. The Politics of gender roles in the music of the Kalabari and Ijaw people of Nigeria. Gender and technology in Nigeria, etc. AFR Video 123
VIDEO TAPES, BEGINNING WITH LETTER R
- Race Faith and Sexuality: Or, a Snapshot Genealogy of the Grateful Negro. Ithaca, NY:Africana
Studies and Research Center, 2006. 1 videodisc (90 min.)
Dwight McBride’s lecture was originally part of the fall 2005 National Summit held in Washington, DC that was intended to address issues of whether gays and lesbians in the African American community should be part of the Black leadership struggle. McBride contents that their fight for equality has had two faces. First, they are a minority and are not being accepted by the White gay and lesbian community; and secondly, they are being refused recognition or listened to by people in the Black community. Videodisc 172 - Race, Writing, and Difference. Ithaca, NY:Africana
Studies and Research Center, 1983. 1 videocassette (75 min.)
Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gates discusses the history of black writing, and urges turning to the black vernacular tradition to arrive at theories of criticism indigenous to black literature, and isolate the signifying black difference. AFR Video 156 - Radical Women Writers in African Literature. Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 1990. 1 videocassette
(96 min.)
Speaker, Molara Ogundipe-Leslie. Videotaped in 1990 at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. Molara Ogundipe-Leslie examines the role of the radical women writers in African literature as they relate to race, class, gender, culture, and the social relations between men and women. AFR Video 394 - The Reagan Administration's Caribbean Basin Initiative
Policy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Africana Studies and Research
Center, 1982. 1 videocassette (110 min.)
Former Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley talks about the foreign economic relations of the United States and its influences on Jamaica and the Third World. AFR Video 167 - Reading and Discussion at the ASRC. Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 1990. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
Poet and activist Askia Toure addresses themes of racism, injustice, stolen history, as well as the beauty of the African woman, African culture and continent. AFR Video 616a - Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
(Kwame Ture). Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University.
2004.1 videocassette (96 min.)
Ekwueme Michael Thelwell talks about his book Ready for revolution: the life and struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). He addresses the criticisms and approval his book has received. Thelwell reads a passage from the book and answers questions. AFR Video 610a - Rebels of the Afro-American Literary Tradition:
Black Lesbian Writers. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Africana
Studies and Research Center, 1987. 1 video cassette.
Presented by Cheryl Clarke. Cheryl Clarke talks about Afro-American lesbians' history, attitudes, and their issues in her writings. AFR Video 128
Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation: A reading by Horace Campbell. Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 2005. 1 videodisc (62 min.)
Horace Campbell provides a reading from his book, Reclaiming Zimbabwe: the exhaustion of patriarchal model of liberation. He also provides some insight into the writing of the book. AFR Videodisc 227
- Reflection of a Renaissance: Social Forces of the Harlem Renaissance. Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 1983. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
Analyzes the meanings of terms that Africans in America have used to define themselves through history. Also explains how Blacks in America during the time of Van De Zee were responding towards social forces of that era. AFR Video 621a
Reflections on Post Haile Selassie Ethiopia. Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. 2002. 1 videocassette (84 min.)
Ayele Bekerie talks about the historical, social, cultural, and economical changes of Ethiopia after Haile Selassie’s regime. AFR Video 618a
Reflections on the State-Sanctioned Execution
of Ken Saro-Wiwa and others in Nigeria. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University,
Africana Studies and Research Center, 1995. 1 videocassette (72 min.)
Ibe Ibeike-Jona discusses his personal reaction to the Nigerian military
government's execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, prominent Nigerian writer
and political activist and eight leaders of the minority Ogoni ethnic
group. Included is videotaped documentary on the Ogoni people, provided
by Amnesty International. AFR Video 251
The Relevance of Culture: Dr. Na’im Akbar. [Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University]. 2005. 1 videodisc (125 min.) Videodisc 165
Discusses the significance of culture and effective leadership within the Black community. He reminded Black people, especially those in North America, that their ancestors were brought here as captives and that their descendents have since continued to be de-constructed in order to remain inferior within the culture of "White Supremacy." He emphasized that Black people must be willing to understand the significance of their culture in order to legitimize their leadership. He believes that culture is the criteria by which true and competent leadership is determined. AFR Videodisc 165
- Religion & Protest in Africa Conference. Ithaca, NY: Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, 1991. 9 video cassettes. International conference on religion and protest in Africa hosted by the Program in African Cultural Studies, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University on April 26-27, 1991. AFR Video 118
Restricted Access & Archives: Historical Realities of Underrepresendent Groups & Their Place in Archives. Tywanna Whorley, Lecturer
Robert F. Williams: Self-Defense, Self-Respect, & Self-Determination, 2006. 1 videodisc (62 min.)
Tywanna Whorley provides insight into how she was able to acquire historical documents from the National Archives on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Whorley contents that it was an experiment on at least 399 African American men from Mason County, Alabama. She states that the U.S. government researchers deliberately withheld adequate treatment from the men, most of whom were uneducated sharecroppers. AFR Videodisc 152
- Revolution '93-MILRSO Fashion Show. Cornell
University, Africana Studies and Research Center. [1993]. 1 videocassette
(83 min.)
This video shows music, comedy, poems and fasion show that were performed by MILRSO (Minority Industrial Labor Relation Student Organization). Main goal of the event is to improve the recruitment and advancement of minority in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. AFR Video 404 - The Rising Tide of Racism and the Need for Black
Solidarity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Africana Studies and
Research Center, 1987. 1 videocassette (103 min.)
Presented by C. Vernon Mason. Lecture discusses the increase in racial discrimination in the United States and the struggles Blacks have been through. AFR Video 185
Roundtable Discussion with Visiting Scholars
of the Africana Center. Cornell University, Africana Studies
and Research Center. 1992. 1 videocassette (130 min.)
Visiting scholars discussed issues ranging from unjust life of Africans
in the Carribean Area to the role of Black theatre in the African tradition.
Also talked about disciplines and issues relating to the field of Africana
studies. AFR Video 398
