Brownsville : black and white /

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Imprint:Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2002.
Description:1 online resource (84 min.).
Language:English
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 2
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10315861
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Other authors / contributors:Black, Laurann.
Broadman, Richard.
Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
Recorded in 2002 in Brownsville, NY.
Previously released as DVD.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition in English.
Summary:This poignant and powerful documentary explores the complex history of interracial cooperation, urban change, and social conflict in Brownsville, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, from the 1930s to the 2000s. A case study of the tragedy of urban American race relations, the film recounts the transformation of Brownsville from a poor but racially harmonious area made up largely of Jews and blacks to a community made up almost entirely of people of color. In the 1940s Brownsville was famous for its grass-roots integration. But it later achieved notoriety for one of the most divisive and bitter black-white confrontations in American history, the 1968 Ocean Hill Brownsville School War, in which the African-American (and Hispanic) community battled the predominantly white and Jewish Teachers Union.