Black Cultural Center library to feature film 'Still Black, At Yale'
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's Black Cultural Center library at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 will feature a screening of "Still Black, At Yale," a 2004 film co-produced by Yale University undergraduate students.Monique Walton and Andia Winslow produced the film, which was inspired by Warrington Hudlin's 1974 film "Black at Yale." Walton and Winslow revisit multiple dynamics of race and identity.
Winslow will facilitate a discussion after the screening. The event, which will take place in Stewart Center, Room 214, is free and open to the public.
"The film provides a voice for African-American students not only at Yale University, but it also echoes the voices of African-American students at many of the nation's institutions of higher learning," said Dorothy Washington, librarian at the Black Cultural Center. "It frankly discusses issues of racial profiling, campus culture and climate, the need for tenured black faculty, and the diversity of black identity. The film is a powerful call for institutional and personal responsibility in addressing turbulent issues in the student body in order to create a more welcoming and inclusive educational environment for all."
The film suggests support services, such as the Afro-American Cultural Center, as a stronghold for ensuring black students' success at Yale, Washington said.
Winslow is a native of Seattle and a 2004 Yale graduate who holds a degree in sociology with an interdisciplinary focus in film studies. She received the Richter International Travel Fellowship, which allowed her to travel to Rio de Janeiro to study the effect of globalization and change on traditional Quilombo artistic traditions in the city center.
Walton also was a 2004 Yale graduate and majored in Latin American studies, focusing on Brazilian racial and socioeconomic disparities in the public and private sphere. She received the Bildner Travel Prize for field research in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, Brazil, in 2003 and was awarded the departmental prize for her senior thesis "The Contradictions of Brazilian Nationalism and Racial Inequality: Discussing Race-based Preferences in Higher Education Admissions."
"Still Black, At Yale" was awarded a Yale University Sudler Arts Grant and has been officially selected for inclusion in 10 international film festivals as well as special presentations at major research universities. For more information, contact Washington at (765) 494-3093, dwashin2@purdue.edu. A flyer on the program is available online.
Writer: Maggie Morris, (765) 494-2432, maggiemorris@purdue.edu
Source: Dorothy Washington, (765) 494-3093, dwashin2@purdue.edu
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