AV Resources: Items with Multicultural Content
Alzheimer's: A Multicultural Perspective
Family Counseling with an Older Black Family
Family Counseling with an Older Hispanic Family
The Impact of Ethnicity on Aging- A Review of Theory, Research and Issues
Independent Spirits
Old, Black, and Alive!
On My Own: The Traditions of Daisy Turner
To Be Old, Black, and Poor
Triple Jeopardy
Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway? (Experience of two brothers at Manzanar)Alzheimer's: A Multicultural Perspective
Running time: 34 minutes/video
San Jose State University
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285
This video examines the experience of caring for someone with Alzheimer's Disease through the eyes of four families: Chinese, Japanese, Latino, and Vietnamese. Through their experience, the viewer gains an appreciation for the intergenerational conflicts that can arise when family members attempt to integrate traditional cultural values with the norms of the majority culture and the pressures of day-to-day life. Services available to families caring for a demented elder are described, as are concerns about using those services.
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Family Counseling with an Older Black Family
School of Social Work at San Jose State University.
Running time: 11 minutes/video
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland Hall
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285
Created to demonstrate family counseling skills appropriate to work with older Black families and to serve as a trigger for discussion, the tape portrays work with an older parent and their adult children where health-related issues have resulted in tensions and misunderstandings. The major issue presented is the conflict between a daughter and her recently disabled mother over the mother's desire to live among her friends, and the daughter's insistence that she move far away to live with her. The theme is the importance of understanding the value of the Black church and extended kin networks to the life of many Black elderly people.
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Family Counseling with an Older Hispanic Family
School of Social Work at San Jose State University
Running time: 14 minutes/video
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285
Created to demonstrate family counseling skills appropriate to work with older Hispanic families and to serve as a trigger for discussion, the tape portrays work with an older parent and their adult children where health-related issues have resulted in tensions and misunderstandings. The major issue presented is the conflict between a brother and sister over whether to use community services for care of their father. The theme is the cultural clash of values between traditional expectations of "familia" as sole caretaker, and the limitations of providing this care by contemporary Mexican-American women.
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The Impact of Ethnicity on Aging- A Review of Theory, Research and Issues
Audiotape
Symposium at the 38th Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging which reviews available research on ethnicity and aging. Addresses problems in conceptualizations of ethnicity and race, and assumptions in terms of research questions. Lastly explores the theoretical implications of research on practice.
Independent Spirits
Running time: approximately 30 minutes/video
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285
A collection of profiles of disabled adults who receive services at an adult day health center, enabling them to live independently.
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Old, Black, and Alive!
Running time: 28 minutes/film (1974)
Available: University of California at Berkeley
Extension Media Center
2176 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 642-0618 or 642-0460
Seven elderly blacks share their insight, faith and strength in a compelling documentary on aging. Aging touches everyone. Its universality is reflected in this film with candidness and humor. Filmed in a rural area of the south, this film shows people who have something to say about aging. "A beautiful, thoughtful film ... full of humor and love." (Film Library Quarterly) "A vibrant film done with feeling and respect. An excellent addition to programs on aging, death, black social problems, and religion." (Religious Film Newsletter).
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On My Own: The Traditions of Daisy Turner
Running time: 28 minutes/video
(call # Video/C2163)
Available: c/o Media Center, Moffitt Library
University of California at Berkeley
Presents the life of a daughter of a former slave, 102-year old Daisy Turner. She recalls childhood incidents and her father's Civil War experiences and talks about life in her homestead in Vermont. Folklorist Jane Beck fills in details about traditions preserved in the Turner family.
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Triple Jeopardy
Running time: 18 minutes / video or film
Available: c/o Diane Driver
Center on Aging
535 University Hall
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 643-6427
This tape is based on A National Study to Assess the Service Needs of The Hispanic Elderly, published by the Asociacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores. It illustrates the three major problems reported by the Hispanic elderly: health, income, and life-satisfaction. Because as many as 30% of elderly Hispanic people live alone and are more than twice as likely to live in poverty as other aged members of our population, they struggle to survive under the triple jeopardy of being old, poor, and members of a minority group.
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To Be Old, Black, and Poor
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Inc.
Running time: 58 minutes/video
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285
This is a gritty and painfully real exposition of what it means to be black, poor, and elderly in the U.S. The film crew documents the life of Leonard and Sarah Bass on and off for six months, recording their struggle to survive, watching as well-meaning neighbors and opportunists come and go.
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Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway?
(Experience of Two Brothers at Manzanar: Mental Illness and Cultural Oppression)
Running time: 60 minutes / video
Available from CASAS\
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285
Riveting video which chronicles the lives of two brothers and their families before, during, and after internment at Manzanar during the second world war.
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