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Cora Unashamed is a 2000 American made-for-television drama film from The American Collection directed by Deborah Pratt, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones. The film was shot on location in October 1999 in central Iowa.
“Cora Unashamed” is about a Black woman in a rural Midwestern town who feels trapped by her dependence on her white employers. Through the loss of her own child and the eventual death of the white child she has helped raise, Cora confronts cultural expectations of humility and shame.
Oct 25, 2000 · Cora Unashamed: Directed by Deborah Pratt. With Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth, Michael Gaston. Set in the 1930's Iowa, where the Cora's family live as the community's only African-Americans. and supported only by Cora's being a housekeeper to the Studevants.
Cora Unashamed By Langston Hughes , first published in The American Mercury . In a town so small it can hardly be called a town, a black woman serves a rich white family until a series of horrific events causes the single joy in her life to vanish.
Full Story Text. "Cora Unashamed" by Langston Hughes. Melton was one of those miserable in-between little places, not large enough to be a town, nor small enough to be a village that is, a village in the rural, charming sense of the word. Melton had no charm about it.
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The movement’s efforts to garner support and acceptance for the African American identity required first exposing the realities of a segregated society. “Cora Unashamed” humanizes what may otherwise seem like an abstract and trivial conversation to those on the privileged side of the equation.
