Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

1/1/1982 - 6/30/1982

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


The Image of the Black in the Western Imagination

FAIN: GN-20682-82

Afro-American Academy (New Haven, CT 06520)
Henry Louis Gates (Project Director: July 1981 to October 1990)

To support revision of the script for a 90-minute documentary of European and American depictions of black people in art, literature and music. The documentary is the pilot for a series of seven programs, the remaining six to be 60 minutes in length.