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Black women : we're still standing
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Jamaica Women's Exchange Project
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MS-3-46, 1990-010
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2 videocassettes (20 min.): col., U-matic
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Administrative history
Jamaica Women's Exchange Project became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s through their involvement on a tape recording entitled “Black Women: We’re Still Strong”.
Custodial history
The tape was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 2013 by the Centre for Art Tapes.
Scope and content
Item consists of a collaborative video project produced by black Haligonian women for the Halifax-Jamaica Exchange Program. Through archival photographs, film footage and newspaper clippings the history of the black population of Nova Scotia is recounted. Contemporary poverty and discrimination are shown to have a long history beginning with slavery and broken promises.
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- English
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Videocassette is available as an uncompressed 10-bit digital master video file (MOV format) and 8-bit access digital video file (MPEG-4 format).
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Digital copies can be viewed at the Dalhousie University Archives. Advance notice is required.
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Copyright is held by the artists.