Big Mama
Description
In Big Mama, a devoted grandmother struggles to raise her orphan grandson alone in southcentral Los Angeles. She deals with her own failing health, discrimination, and a bureaucratic and legal system that continually threatens to intervene and force them apart. This Academy Award winning documentary helps to shed light on the changing role of grandparents in society and the changing and diverse composition of the family.
Runtime
40 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2000
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1857480
Similar Films
Is there a national conspiracy against blacks? Atlanta. Part one
Sheer good fortune. Celebrating Toni Morrison
Loyalties
PBS NewsHour
Say brother. Caring for your health
Tony Brown's journal. Is there something wrong with today's youth?
Can you dig it? Black history quiz. Show 3
Ella Collins interview
That under 40 bunch
Race or reason, the Bellport dilemma
A stacked deck
Martin Luther King's torment
Homecoming
PBS NewsHour
Can you dig it? Black history quiz. Show 1