The black kungfu experience
(2013)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : PBS : Made available through hoopla, 2013
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 video file (ca. 60 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT11169002, 11169002
LANGUAGE
English
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Directed by Martha Burr

Meet kungfu's black pioneers and heroes who fluorished at the junction of African American and Asian cultures. The Black Kungfu Experience traces the rise of black kungfu in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and resonates in the contemporary martial arts scene in Washington D.C, Los Angeles, The Virgin Islands, Jamaica, and Hong Kong. Chinese and African American experiences evolve differently yet converge in unexpected ways; they challenge political and social persecution - from shadows of the Qing government's oppressive rule in China, and British colonialism in Hong Kong, to entrenched American racism - with the unique vehicle of kungfu

Featuring, Ron Van Clief, Dennis Brown, Tayari Casel, Don Hamby

Rated PG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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