The colour of money [videorecording] / Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; BBC Active ; director/producer, Paul Tickell ; executive producer, David Okuefuna.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: 39663 | Films for the Humanities & SciencesSeries: Racism: a historyPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2008.Description: 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Title on disc and container: Color of money : colonialism and the slave trade
  • Colonialism and the slave trade
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 22
LOC classification:
  • HT1507 .C65 2008
Production credits:
  • Camera, Luke Cardiff ... [et al.] ; film editor, Chris Wyatt ; composer, Nikola Kodjabashia.
Narrator, Sophie Okonedo ; readings, Shaun Parkes.Summary: Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences. It assesses the significance of biblical narratives, including the "curse of Ham", in the evolution of European concepts of race, and goes on to examine the basis of institutionalized racism - entwined with fervent capitalism - on which the transatlantic slave trade operated. The destruction of America's indigenous civilizations and the dehumanization and exploitation of Africans are studied alongside the writings of Enlightenment philosophers and historians. Includes commentary by Dr. Orlando Patterson, Dr. Barnor Hesse, and Professor James Walvin.
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Originally produced by the BBC in 2007.

Camera, Luke Cardiff ... [et al.] ; film editor, Chris Wyatt ; composer, Nikola Kodjabashia.

Narrator, Sophie Okonedo ; readings, Shaun Parkes.

Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences. It assesses the significance of biblical narratives, including the "curse of Ham", in the evolution of European concepts of race, and goes on to examine the basis of institutionalized racism - entwined with fervent capitalism - on which the transatlantic slave trade operated. The destruction of America's indigenous civilizations and the dehumanization and exploitation of Africans are studied alongside the writings of Enlightenment philosophers and historians. Includes commentary by Dr. Orlando Patterson, Dr. Barnor Hesse, and Professor James Walvin.

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