Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/58/25/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Daten.d. [1968]
DescriptionRichard Davis jnr, a high school student, talks to Dilip Hiro

Track 1: He talks about drug use in schools, 1.18
Track 2: He talks about becoming aware of being black and unfair treatment at school, 1.24 mins
Track 3: He talks about black and white children doing things together in school and teachers getting black children in trouble, 2.14 mins
Tracks 4-5: He talks about being bullied by white students at school and fighting back. He talks about how it makes him feel. He says that sometimes black and white students mix, but mostly they stay separate.
Track 6: He says that white and black people are friends at his present school and the education is good, 1.31 mins
Track 7: He talks about going to college and becoming an accountant. He talks about his birthplace and childhood in Lansing, Michigan, 1.50 mins
Track 8: He says he learnt a lot at high school about drugs, 1.34 mins
Track 9: He says he has never visited a white friend's house, although they were good friends because the parents might be against him. He says that most black students are more aware of being black, 2.00 mins
Track 10: Silence, 2.01 mins
Track 11: He shows Dilip Hiro the books he owns about black culture and history, 1.37 mins
Track 12: He reads a piece from the book about the black actor Ira Aldridge, 1.03 mins
Track 13: He talks about knowing about black history and being able to challenge what he has been taught, 2.05 mins
Track 14: He talks about teaching of black history in school, 1.45 mins
Track 15: He talks about black athletes in school selling dope. He says that he thinks some black leaders sell out the black people and talks about Martin Luther King, 1.58 mins
Track 16: He discusses the black leaders he likes, 1.48 mins
Track 17: He says that black and white people should be able to live together but black people may have to get better living standards by violence, 1.22 mins
Track 18: He talks about not going to church. He says he would like to see more black people on TV and in showbusiness, 1.56 mins
Track 19: He talks about his sense of identity as an Afro-American and about white immigrants who employ black people, 1.35 mins

Total: 32.13 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0565880
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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