hi..here's a little background on a video we will be screening on acclaimed videographer and documentarian Marlon Riggs on the history of the African-American image in American television in the 20th century.
"The video Color Adjustment, which aired on public television stations in the early 1990s, was an interpretive look at the images of African-Americans in fifty years of American television history. Using footage from shows like Amos 'n' Andy, Julia, and Good Times, Riggs compared the grossly stereotyped caricatures of Blacks contained in early television programming to those of recent, and presumably more enlightened, decades."
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/riggsmarlon/riggsmarlon.htm
Another web source for bio info:
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Riggs/RiggsBio.html
In this video, Riggs also includes quotes by writer James Baldwin. Here are a few biographical web sites
From Pegasos - A literature related site in Finland
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jbaldwin.htm
From University of Illinois in Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/quic/history/james_baldwin.html
-sam smiley
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