Rue Casses Negres (Sugar Cane Alley)
In early 1930s Martinique, young Jose and his grandmother live in a small village where kids played while broken men work the fields. Watch Jose learning about slavery and racial inequality while his grandma tries to get him out of the sugar cane fields and give him a chance in life.
French with English subtitles
Presented by Dr. John Higginson
Presented by the Latin@ American Graduate Students Organization and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention Office, Communications Department, Comparative Literature Department, History Department, Spanish and Portuguese Department, W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, Graduate Employee Organization, and the Fine Arts Center.
Please join us for this film and then stay for a great discussion afterwards.