Media - A sampling of our library collection
The African Americans : many rivers to cross (DVD)ISBN: 0841887020008
Been to the mountaintop (DVD)ISBN: 1885959850- Black America since MLK : and still I rise [Blu-Ray] byISBN: 9781627898072
The Black power mixtape 1967-1975 (DVD)ISBN: 9780788614439
Circle unbroken : a Gullah journey from Africa to America (DVDIISBN: 9781936134595
Daughters of the dust (DVD)ISBN: 1417249021
Democracy Matters (Book on CD) by
In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies. A mesmerizing speaker with a host of fervidly devoted fans, West gives as many as one hundred public lectures a year and appears regularly on radio and television. Praised by The New York Times for his "ferocious moral vision" and hailed by Newsweek as "an elegant prophet with attitude," he bridges the gap between black and white opinion about the country's problems. In Democracy Matters, West returns to the analysis of the arrested development of democracy-both in America and in the crisis-ridden Middle East. In a strikingly original diagnosis, he argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of imperialist corruption that has plagued our own democracy. Both our failure to foster peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis of Islamist anti-Americanism stem largely from hypocrisies in our dealings with the world. Racism and imperial expansionism have gone hand in hand in our country's inexorable drive toward hegemony, and our current militarism is only the latest expression of that drive. Even as we are shocked by Islamic fundamentalism, our own brand of fundamentalism, which West dubs Constantinian Christianity, has joined forces with imperialist corporate and political elites in an unholy alliance, and four decades after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., insidious racism still inflicts debilitating psychic pain on so many of our citizens. But there is a deep democratic tradition in America of impassioned commitment to the fight against imperialist corruptions-the last great expression of which was the civil rights movement led by Dr. King-and West brings forth the powerful voices of that great democratizing tradition in a brilliant and deeply moving call for the revival of our better democratic nature. His impassioned and provocative argument for the revitalization of America's democracy will reshape the terms of the raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled world. .
ISBN: 1415903409
The Fire Next Time (Playaway audio)ISBN: 9781605149585
Malcolm X (Book on CD) by
Unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hours Read by TBA Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. .
ISBN: 9780142428443
Maya Angelou, and still I riseISBN: 9781627899871
Slavery by another name (DVD)ISBN: 9781608836253
Soundtrack for a revolution (DVD)ISBN: 1422988279
- The Wisdom of Malcolm X (Book on CD) Excerpts of speeches by Malcolm X.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Library database with streaming video content on a variety of subjects. Off campus users may login with your Madison College username and password.
sample titles:
“Rise! (1940-1968): The African Americans—Many Rivers to Cross.”
“FedFlix: African-Americans in World War II: Legacy of Patriotism and Valor.”
Black Hollywood: The Way it Was, Part 1
Considering Repairations: PBS Newshour
Buffalo Soldiers: An American Legacy
(note: sound levels are very low. Turn up the volume!)
Black America: Black America Since MLK - Part 2, Move on Up
video from Films on Demand library database. Includes nine short segments on Martin Luther King, Jr., for February’s Black History Month. Stories include “King Holiday,” “MLK/Wreath-laying,” “Jackson/MLK,” King/Civil Rights,” “Reagan/Kids,” “MLK Bust/Capitol,” “Andy Young Reflects,” “MLK Celebration/Atlanta,” and “MLK Celebration/Washington, D.C.” From the National Archives and Records Administration.