Billops, CamilleOverview
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Camille Billops
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Camille Billops
The Harlem book of the dead
by James Van Der Zee
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3 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 436 libraries worldwide
Finding Christa
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9 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in English and held by 59 libraries worldwide A partly documentary film concerning an artist who leaves her three-year old daughter at a children's home. The daughter grows up to be a performing artist who, at the urging of her adoptive mother, seeks out the birth mother who gave her up.
Suzanne Suzanne
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8 editions published between 1982 and 2008 in English and held by 33 libraries worldwide A documentary film which focuses on the tense relationship between a young Black woman, Suzanne, a former drug addict, and her mother. Both were victims of the father's abusiveness.
The KKK boutique ain't just rednecks
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4 editions published between 1994 and 2000 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide A "docu-fantasy about the way racism changes our souls." Combining the setting of a fantasy boutique where people can change their race with the paradigm of a progression through Dante's Inferno, this film uses a large cast of characters in skits ; interviews and personal statements to reveal the subtle pervasiveness and ubiquitousness of racism.
Older women and love
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4 editions published between 1987 and 2009 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide Interviews with women who talk about love, love as they age, and love with younger partners.
Take your bags
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2 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 13 libraries worldwide "Camille Billops tells the story of African culture to her young companion, Keita. In Billops' witty, sardonic take on slavery, Africans were politely relieved of their 'baggage, ' only to discover, generations later, that the contents had been appropriated as icons of Western art."--June Givanni.
Remembering Owen Dodson : November 28, 1914-June 21, 1983
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1 edition published in 1984 in English and held by 12 libraries worldwide
The Stone House : a blues legend
by James Vernon Hatch
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide
A string of pearls 1979-2001
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3 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide The third film of the trilogy by Camille Billops looks at four generations of men in her family and considers why their fathers died so young and what prospects face the survivors.
Finding Christa
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2 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide A documentary film concerning an artist who leaves her three-year old daughter at a children's home. The daughter grows up to be a performing artist who, at the urging of her adoptive mother, seeks out the birth mother who gave her up.
Interview of Coreen Simpson
by Camille Billops
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1 edition published in 1986 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
Interview of Georgette Seabrooke Powell
by Camille Billops
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1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
Interview of Dorothy Porter
by James Vernon Hatch
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1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
Interview of Elizabeth Catlett
by Camille Billops
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1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
Interview of Emma Amos
by Camille Billops
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1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
The divided bed : poems
by Victoria Sullivan
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1 edition published in 1982 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide
Skowhegan lecture archive] 2003
by Camille Billops
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2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide African American artist and filmmaker Camille Billops shows slides of ceramics, prints, drawings, and the people and places of her life. She also presents two short films that span her career as an artist. The commentary accompanying the slides identifies the pieces and what they were intended to convey. The lecture includes autobiographical material and a description of the Hatch-Billops Collection, an archive of African American cultural history that she and her husband, James Hatch, developed and maintain.
Arthur Smith, a jeweler's retrospective : Jamaica Arts Center, February 1 - March 24, 1990
by Arthur Smith
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1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
The Harlem book of the dead
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1 edition published in 1978 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Hatch-Billops collection [taped interviews of authors
by James Vernon Hatch
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Collection of interviews with African and African-American authors, including poets, novelists, playwrights and editors. In general, the authors discuss their life and careers. Collection also includes a panel discussion, celebrating Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar, two sound recordings of a CBS-TV program entitled Black Arts and a few lectures given at City College. more
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Abused children Abused wives Abusive men Adopted children Adoption African American artists African American families African American men African Americans African Americans--Race identity America Art, African--Influence Art, American Art, Modern Billops, Camille Blues (Music) Children of artists Documentary films Documentary films Dodson, Owen,--1914-1983 Drama Exhibition catalogs Experimental films Family violence Fiction Funeral rites and ceremonies Heroin abuse History Interviews Iowa Iowa--Oelwein Love in middle age Love in old age Manners and customs Marital violence Middle-aged women Mothers and daughters Mourning customs New York (State)--New York New York (State)--New York--Harlem Older women Parent and child Racism Sculptors Short films Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Slavery--Psychological aspects Slavery--Social aspects United States Video art
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