The language you cry in / a film from California Newsreel ; writer, Alvaro Toepk ; producer/directors, Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano.
Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and...
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| Language: | English Mende |
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Mende |
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In English and Mende with English subtitles. |
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[San Francisco, Calif.] :
California Newsreel,
1998.
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Video DVD |