| Description | Tracks 1 - 19: An assembly of the first part of 'We Lived Across The River'. The assembly consists of clips of music (including gospel music recorded in a church), narration by Stuart Hall and interviews with black Americans and black people from the West Midlands (including first generation African Caribbean people). The interviews include topics such as the Civil Rights Movement in America, with reference to Dr Martin Luther King and the interviewees opinions on non-violent responses to racism; the interviewees' feelings of their ancestral African identity; the interviewees' experiences of racism and segregation in their lives, and their opinions of white people; their family memories of slavery; comparisons between the churches in the Caribbean and in black communities to majority white congregation churches; whether Jesus was black or not.
Total: 31.54 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0547080 |