| Description | Charles Parker talks with Charlotte Brooks.
Track 1: Test tone, 0.08 mins
Tracks 2-3: Charlotte Brooks talks about the use of the words 'black' and 'white' to describe skin colour, and the use of the words to describe black people in the south of America, she talks about working with a group of black and white people following desegregation in the south. She talks about speech and language and the southern dialect and says that she believes that children's speech should not be corrected, she talks about southern white people not understanding black people's speech and says that black people do not want to be understood in order to protect themselves, 3.11 mins
Track 4: She talks about people being taught to lose their accents when they go to teacher training college, 0.56 mins
Track 5: She talks about the need to talk to children and to old people, 0.46 mins
Tracks 6-7: She talks about Alex Haley's book about his family history and ancestors and tells the story of Alex Haley's discovery of his ancestry in the Gambia and Ireland
Track 8: She talks about children talking to their grandparents about family history, chopping and picking cotton and children when she was young being ashamed of being descended from slaves, but now this is changing, she talks about the terms used to describe black people, 1.51 mins
Track 9: She talks again about Alex Haley's discovery of his ancestry in the Gambia and describes how the people in his village celebrated when they realised that his ancestor came from their village, 2.12 mins
Track 10: She talks about the oral tradition in Africa which was hidden from the missionaries and talks about the tradition of training children to remember the entire history of the village, 1.58 mins
Track 11: She talks about the slave trade in Africa and about Alex Haley giving a talk about his research into his family history to a group of high school students who were thought to be 'bitter' and 'disadvantaged', and how he was able to reach them, 2.27 mins
Track 12: Test tone, 0.06 mins
Tracks 13-14: Charles Parker talks about culture and poverty in society. Charlotte Brooks talks about the play 'In White America' and people's reactions to it.
Track 15: They talk about people's reactions to plays like 'In White America' and the power structures in America, she talks about riots and white people arming themselves, 2.00 mins
Track 16: Charlotte Brooks talks about riots and talks about a book called 'The Algiers Hotel Incident' about black people being killed in a hotel in Detroit during a riot, 2.11 mins
Tracks 17-18: She talks about children being killed during riots. She talks about arriving in Washington after Martin Luther King was shot, when there was a curfew, and being stopped by a policeman and using the right tone of voice to convince him that she was not a looter. She talks about a white 'redneck' taxi driver treating her as if she were a white lady from the South.
Total: 32.55 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0668680 |