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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 00 Homecoming.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
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500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1999. 
520    Homecoming is the first film to explore the rural roots of
       African American life. It chronicles the generations-old 
       struggle of African Americans for land of their own which 
       pitted them against both the Southern white power 
       structure and the federal agencies responsible for helping
       them. Director Charlene Gilbert weaves this history 
       together with a fond portrait of her own Georgia farming 
       family into what she calls, "A story of land and love." 
       Like so much African American history, the Black farmers' 
       story is one of perseverance in the face of prejudice and 
       perjured promises. As part of radical Reconstruction, 
       Congress allotted 45 million acres of land to former 
       slaves but the rapid reimposition of white supremacy meant
       that little land was ever actually distributed. Despite 
       formidable obstacles, one million African Americans, 
       mostly former sharecroppers, managed to purchase over 15,
       000,000 acres of land by 1910. This achievement was 
       threatened by the agricultural crisis of the '20s and '30s
       thatled to a raft of farm foreclosures and, eventually, to
       the system of federal farm loans and subsidies on which 
       all farmers depend today. But the U.S. Dept. of 
       Agriculture was a white man's club, often working hand in 
       glove with local bankers and big landowners to dispossess 
       Black farmers of their land. For example, during the '30s 
       the Southern Tenant Farmers Union had to force the Farm 
       Security Administration to include African American 
       farmers in their tenant purchase program. It was through 
       this program that the filmmaker's grandfather purchased 
       his land, the farm her cousin now owns. Black farmers are 
       currently suing the U.S.D.A. successfully for 
       discriminatory loan practices over the last three decades.
       As a result of these policies, there are only 18,000 Black
       farmers left in America and it is predicted there will be 
       none in the next century. Homecoming, is also a mediation 
       on the unfinished work of redeeming the land African 
       Americans worked as slaves for hundreds of years. August 
       Wilson once asserted that African Americans are a rural 
       people who, after the Great Migration, found themselves in
       an alien urban milieu. This film argues that Black farms, 
       though small in number today, can continue to provide 
       African Americans with a sense of cultural stability and 
       family unity into the 21st Century. In a country that has 
       never tried to make African Americans feel at home, this 
       film, like the farming families it celebrates, offers a 
       real "homecoming." "A unique documentary. Viewers will 
       learn how African American family, culture and community 
       have been knit together since the days of slavery from 
       rural Georgia to inner city Philadelphia." - Gene F. 
       Summers, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "This film tells
       a distressing story but delivers an uplifting message. 
       We're all in this struggle together, whether displaced 
       Black farmers of downsized white workers" - Jim Hightower.
       "A poignant, personal, political and historical mediation.
       It will teach, inspire and empower us to correct the 
       injustices which continue to plague Black farmers." - Tera
       W. Hunter, Carnegie Mellon University. "Watching this 
       documentary elicits sadness, laughter, thoughtfulness and 
       a feeling of connection. It captures not only the struggle
       of the Black farmer but urban Black America's remembrance 
       of farm life and the South." - Gary R. Grant, Black 
       Farmers & Agriculturalists Association. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 African Americans|xFarmers|vHistory|zUnited States. 
650  0 Civil War|vHistory|y1861-1865|zUnited States. 
650  0 Reconstruction|y1865-1877|vHistory|zUnited States. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Gilbert, Charlene |efilm director. 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
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