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Additional authors

1. Murray, James Briggs.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (21 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. The oral history interview with Robert Townsend briefly documents his childhood in Chicago.

Subject

1. Racism in motion pictures
2. African Americans > Race identity
3. Second City (Theater company)
4. Townsend, Robert, 1957- > Interviews
5. Davis, Ossie
6. Dee, Ruby
7. Stereotypes (Social psychology)
8. Negro Ensemble Company
9. Wayans, Keenan Ivory
10. Oral history
11. African American motion picture producers and directors
12. African Americans in the motion picture industry
13. African American motion picture actors and actresses
14. African Americans in motion pictures
15. Interviews
16. Racism
17. Biographies
18. Hollywood shuffle (Motion picture)

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Biographies.
3. Oral history.

Call number

1. Sc Visual VRA-123

Event (note)

1. Recorded on August 21, 1987, at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Oral History Video Documentation Program, New York, N.Y.

System details (note)

1. VHS.

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography (note)

1. Robert Townsend is an actor, filmmaker, and writer.

Author

1. Townsend, Robert, 1957- Interviewee

Title

1. Oral history interview with Robert Townsend, 21 August 1987 / interviewed by James Briggs Murray.

Imprint

1. 1987.

Original version

1. Reproduction. Originally produced: New York, N.Y. : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 1987. 1 videocassette ; 3/4 in. (U-matic).

Event

1. Recorded on August 21, 1987, at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Oral History Video Documentation Program, New York, N.Y.

System details

1. VHS.

Terms of use

1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography

1. Robert Townsend is an actor, filmmaker, and writer. Born on Feb. 6, 1957, in Chicago, Ill., he co-wrote, co-starred, produced and directed "Hollywood shuffle"--a satire on African American stereotyping and racial attitudes of the film industry in general and Hollywood in particular.

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Added author

1. Murray, James Briggs. Interviewer
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual VRA-123 Service copy.
2. Sc Visual VRB-2010 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-123.