My Own (not private) Black History Month writeoff
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The Bottom Line Black culture products and studies I've epined about. "History"? Well, anything in the past counts in one sense...
Every four years, Black History Month lasts a day more than other years. (Yeah, I know February is the shortest month, but originally there was a Black History Week.)
No one has hosted a Black History Month writeoff for many years, and I decided on this Leap Day to list my relevant epinions. (I realize that relevance is a matter of opinion, and have definitely reached beyond historical studies to other kinds of representations and cultural products.)
I've subdivided my list into the following categories:
(Sub-Saharan) Africa
Black Athletes
African Americans in nonmetropolitan locations
African Americans in metropolitan locations
African American literature and writers
African American music and musicians
Black Caribbean and Brazil
Blacks in Europe
The epinions editor destroyed hours of formating, leaving only some of my links, and then blocking posting for invisible garbage (HTML I did not type)...
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(Sub-Saharan) Africa
Allah Is Not Obliged
Allah Made Us : Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City
Bamako
*Chocola
General Idi Amin Dada
Heterosexual Africa?
Hotel Rwanda
Hungochani
Hyenas
Imperialism within the Margins
*In a Better World
*The Interpreter
*Irregular Connections
*James' Journey to Jerusalem
Life on Earth
*Live and Become
Lost Boys of Sudan
Lumumba
Mandabi
*Master Harold and the Boys
Mooladé
*The Radiance of the King
Red Moon & High Summer
*Rereading Camara Laye
A Season in the Congo
*Too Late, the Phalarope
Touki Bouki
Tsotsi
Waiting for Happiness
War Child
The Wedding of Zein
When Men Are Women: Manhood Among the Gabra Nomads of East Africa
*The Wilby Conspiracy
Yesterday
Xala
* indicates a major focus on a non-black character and/or setting with black African/Africa ones
African American athletes
Brian's Song
The Express: The Ernie Davis Story
Jim Brown, All-American
Sugar
Tyson
African American nonmetropolitan movies
Bagdad Cafe
Ballast
Band of Angels
Cabin in the Sky
Clara’s Heart
Eve’s Bayou
A Gathering of Old Men
George Washington
Glory
Goodbye Solo
Green Pastures
Hallelujah
The Help
Honeydripper
The Intruder
Lackawanna Blues
The Learning Tree
The Liberation of L. B. Jones
Lilies of the Field
One False Move
Ride with the Devil
Romeo Must Die
The Scalphunters
School Daze
Scottsboro
Sergeant Rutledge
Shock Corridor
The Skin Game
Steel Helmet
Stir Crazy
Strange Fruit
Their Eyes Were Watching God
White Dog
African Americans in metropolitan location movies
American Violet
The Angel Levine
Badasssss Cinema
Basquiat Also see the original Basquiat in Downtown ‘81
Boy Culture
Boycott
Brother
Colors
Fresh
Ghost Dog
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Gridlock'd
Hairspray
Hangin' with the Homeboys
A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
Holiday Heart
A Huey P. Newton Story
Hustle and Flow
In Too Deep
Juice
Kansas City
Killer of Sheep
Medicine for Melancholy
My Brother's Wedding
No Way Out
Noah's Arc season 2
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
Purple Rain
Shaft (remake; my very first epinion btw)
Sucker Free City
Thurgood
African American literature (and writers)
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Mosley)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Johnson)
Best Short Stories by Black Writers (ed. LangstonHughes)
Brother to Brother (Harlem Renaissance movie)
Chester Himes (bio)
+Claude McKay: Code Name Sasha (bio)
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen
Conjure Man Dies (Fisher)
Dreamer (Johnson)
+Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance (Nugent)
Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
Gentleman Jigger (Nugent)
Getting Mother's Body (Parks)
Got 'Til It's Gone (Duplechan)
Harlem Glory (McKay)
+Harlem Rennaisance history (Watson)
He Sleeps (McKnight)
Heathens (Haynes)
Home to Harlem
Honey, Honey, Miss Thang (Pettiway)
+How I Became Hettie Jones
If He Hollers Let Him Go (Himes)
Invisible Man (Ellison)
Last Night on Earth (Jones)
Lawd Today! (Wright)
+Light in August
Little Scarlet (Mosley)
+My Black Book (Adams)
Native Son (Wright)
Not Without Laughter (Hughes)
Once You Go Black (Reid-Pharr)
+One of the Children (Hawkeswood)
Philadelphia Fire (Wideman)
Pinktoes (Himes)
A Rage in Harlem (Himes)
Real Black (Jackson)
The Richer, the Poorer (West)
Thurman [, Wallace] Collected Writings
The Torturer's Wife (Glave)
The Walls of Jericho (Fisher)
Walrond [, Eric] Reader: Winds Can Wake Up the Dead
The Ways of White Folks (Hughes)
The Wedding (West)
+about blacks by writers whom I think or know are white
African American Music/Musicians
The 5 Heartbeats
Best of David Ruffin
Bird (Clint Eastwood’s Charlie Parker biopic)
But Beautiful
Cabin in the Sky
Countryman
Dreams to Remember: The Legacy of Otis Redding
Elevator to the Gallows soundtrack (Miles Davis)
Finding Forrester soundtrack (mostly Miles Davis)
Gloria Gaynor Greatest Hits
Green Pastures
Half Pint Live in Jamaica
Hallelujah
The Harder They Come
Last Night on Earth
Little Richard
The Miles Davis Story
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue
Mingus, Ah Um
Mingus - Triumph of the Underdog
Piano Blues
Platters 16 Greatest Hits
Prepare for Saints
Purple Rain
Scenes in the City (Branford Marsalis)
Shirelles greatest hits
Sweet Release/Ghost Story (Wynton Marsalis)
Temptations Greatest Hits 2
Thelonius Monk Straight, No Chaser
Toots and the Maytals Live at the Santa Monica Pier
Tsotsi (soundtrack)
The Very Best of Otis Redding
Victory Stride (Jame P. Johnson)
Winin' Boy Blues (Jelly Roll Morton)
Zouzou
Caribbean/Brazil
The Agronomist (Haiti)
Children of God (Bahamas)
City of Men (Brazil)
Cool Runnings (Jamaica)
Fanon biopic (Martinique)
The Harder They Come (Jamaica)
Martinique Snake Charmer
The Torturer's Wife (Jamaica)
Blacks in Europe
35 Shots of Rum
An African in Greenland
Black Girl
The Class
La Haine
Miracle at St. Anna
Othello (2002)
Paisà (Paisan)
Sapphire
Young Soul Rebels
Zouzou
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