African American Studies 142A Final

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Princess Tam Tam

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Director: Edmund T. Greville
Year: 1935
Country: France

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Camp de Thiaroye

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Directors: Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow
Year: 1987
Country: Senegal

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Borrom Sarret

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Director: Ousmane Sembene
Year: 1966
Country: Senegal

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Black Girl (La noire de)

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Director: Ousmane Sembene
Year: 1966
Country: Senegal

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La Haine

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Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Year: 1995
Country: France

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Lumumba

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Director: Raoul Peck
Year: 2000
Country: Belgium

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Black Orpheus

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Director: Marcel Camus
Year: 1959
Country: Brazil/France

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Quilombo

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Director: Carlos Diegues
Year: 1984
Country: Brazil

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Sankofa

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Director: Haile Gerima
Year: 1993
Country: United States

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Daughters of the Dust

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Director: Julie Dash
Year: 1991
Country: United States

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Life and Debt

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Director: Stephanie Black
Year: 2001
Country: United States

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What shapes diaspora in the mind?

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1. dispersal from homeland often by violent force to at least two peripheral places
2. myth and maintenance of a myth about homeland
3. marginalization in new location
4. ancestral home seen as eventual return place
5. commitment to maintenance and restoration of homeland
6. continuing relationship to and identity with the homeland that shapes consciousness and solidarity of the group

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Afrotopia

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notion that Africa represents a promise and a paradise

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Kuleshev effect

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juxtaposing images so that our mind will make an association between them

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Lumiere brothers

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record every day aspects of life
lots of actualities about various countries around the world; colonial encounter

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Tirailleus Senegalais

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WWI African soldiers

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declage

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gap, discrepancy, time lag, interval, jet-lag

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Bantu educational cinema experiment (1935-1939)

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Goal was to guard against dissemination of wrong ideas. Noccut films served to conserve good African traditions and adapt new ones. Ideological indoctrinations. 35 films produced

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Pauline Vierra

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made the first African film entitled Afrique Sur Scene

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Jean-Rere Debrix

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took over film unit of colonial ministry in the 1950's.

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guestworker program

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people work for two years and then they go back - in place for former colonies

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parallel society

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integration failed because immigrants are building their own nation alongside ours

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Banlieue

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the ghettos of Paris, France; in the suburbs of the city and built in the 1950s to provide housing for middle class professionals

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Joseph Mobutu Sese Seko

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President of Zaire from 1965 to 1967

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Petrice Lumumba

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37 year old Prime Minister of the Congo

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New world slavery differences from old type of slavery

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1. slaves were property not people
2. meant to be slaves forever
3. race is unique, central defining feature of new world slavery

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slavery differences btw US and Brazil

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Brazil: went on much longer, more people of Africa descent free in Brazil than were slaves, manumission easier to get in Brazil, most slaves still being imported in to Brazil, catholics

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Nelson Poreira dos Santos

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Most well known film: barren Lives, 1963

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Glaubar Rocha

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Wrote the "Aesthetics of Hunger" , Land in Anguish - 1967 film

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Carlos Diegues

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Made a new version of Black Orpheus, first film was Palmares, also did Quilombo, 1984

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quilombo

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angolan word for community

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Oscar Michaeux and Johnson Brothers

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starters of African American independent film

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Definition of african-american independent film

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any black film produced outside constraints of major studios displaying on screen black lives/concerns derived from complexity of black communities and providing alternative ways of knowing black people

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Lady Saw

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Dancehall queen - extremely sexualized and raunchy

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montmartre

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Parisian neighborhood called a transatlantic Harlem - fascination with blackness in interwar Paris

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league against imperialism

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formed as a direct attack on the league of nation's preservation of imperialism in its mandate system. Congress in Brussels called for the rights of the darker nations to rule themselves

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First conference of African State

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Accra hosted this after Ghana won its independence in 1957. Later became the home to the All-African people's conference. In this conference, what brought Africans together was a common interest in the independence of Africa

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Die Schwarze Schande

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The black shame; refers to the German press campaign objecting to the use of nonwhite colonial troops as occupation forces in the Rhineland following the armistice of 1918

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decolonization

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historical process; the meeting of two force opposed to each other by their very nature, which in fact owe their originality to that sort of substantification which results from and is nourished by the situation in the colonies

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third cinema

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the cinema that recognized in that struggle (anti-imperialist struggle), the most gigantic cultural, scientific, and artistic manifestation of our time, te great possibility of constructing a liberated personality with each people as the starting point - in a word, the decolonization of culture

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Walter Rodney

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Born in Guyana
Interest in the slave, slavery, nd the Atlantic slave traide
Reconstructed picture of the society between European invasion.
Rodney perceived the Rastafari movement as a major force in the effort towards freeing and mobilising black minds
Major work: how Europe underdeveloped Africa

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Bob Marley

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Full name: Robert Nesta Marley
Career: singer and writer - spanned 20 years
Spoke out for the oppressed which appeared in his reggae songs and songs of resistance such as I shot the Sheriff,

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Michael Manley

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Former prime minister of Jamaica
Ran a ferocious and successful political campaign against the global economic system that stacked the decks against countries like Jamaica, but his regime did not try to dissociate itself from the world capitalist system or even the overwhelming fdominance of financiers of the commerical or IMF variety

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IMF

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International Monetary Fund - rigorous plan to fit all ailments. Elements include tighter money supply, a de-valued currency, high interest rates, reduce governmental expenditure, lower wages, and an assault on tariffs and subsidies

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Marcus Garvey

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Jamaican activist - Africa for the Africans. Born in 1889. Goal was to reclaim Africa for the Africans and establsih a black empire - UNIA (Universal Negro Improvment association) Also started the Black Star Line

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Josephine Baker

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Born in 1906 and raised in St. Louis. Earliest memories were the 1917 race riots. Became overnight sensation in France - most famous for performance in a banana skirt.

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Berlin conference

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scramble for Africa (1884-1885); Regulated European trade, established fair trade agreements, prohibited slave trade, Africa divided up between main powers of Europe

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Lumiere Borthers

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record every day aspects of life; lots of actualities aobu various countries around the world

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third cinema

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emerges out of the belief that film can help build a new world
Characteristics: marked bu politics, de-emphasized technical perfection in order to carr on story, used unprofessional actors, political message emphasized most

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Ousmane Sembene

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1923-2007
Born n province of Casamas into a fshing family
one of the first waves of African filmmakers who were trained in European film schools

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historical materialism

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economic modes shape cultural and social norms

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culture of poverty

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stereotype of inter-city ghetto residents who fundamentally don't know how to engage in work ethic

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parallel society

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means integration has failed because immigrants are building own nation alongside our nation

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banlieue

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the ghettos of Paris, France, not in the inter-city but the suburbs

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contanga region

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contains 60% of the worlds colbalt mine

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Joseph Mobutu Sese Seko

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President of Zaire from 1965-1997

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Raoul Peck

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Born in 1953 in Haiti. At age of 8 left to the Democratic Republic of the Cong, 1961. Live in DRC for 24 years

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hip hop

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emerged in South Bronx in the early to mid 1970s. Highway through working class communities. Not jsut about rapping but DJs, graffiti, break dancing

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Carmen Miranda

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Light-hearted representation of Brazil. Born out of slums in Rio. Floor entertainment for cabaret scenes

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Italian neo-realism

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film movement in Italy marked by documentary style, non-professional actors, shooting on location, about every day struggles

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Nelson poreria dos santos

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1963 Barren Lives

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sankofa

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looking to one's past to move forwards

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Push/Pull factors - jim Crow era

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Push: jim crow south, wage slavery, convict leasing, growth of prison system, lynching
pull: better opportunities in North for jobs/education, etc.

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myrtle bank hotel

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symbol of society built by United Fruit Company. racially segregated, elite hotel.

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what marks period of globalization?

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1. iconization of products
2. deterritorialization of cutlure
3. drive of industry, commercialization
4. de-territorialization of money
5. flow from US to the rest of the world
6. creation of new markets - key feature of globalization