Cora Unashamed is a TV movie from The American Collection

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 directed by Deborah M. Pratt

Deborah Pratt

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, starring Regina Taylor

Regina Taylor

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 and Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones

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, and released in 2000. The movie is based on a short story by the same name in The Ways of White Folks

The Ways of White Folks

The Ways of White Folks is a collection of short stories written by Langston Hughes, published in 1934. Hughes wrote the book during a year he spent living in Carmel, California. The collection, "marked by pessimism about race relations, as well as a sardonic realism," is among his most well...

, a collection of short stories by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

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. Cinematographer Ernest Holzman won an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)

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 Award, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series'/Pilot for Network or Basic Broadcast TV, for his work on this film. David Herbert Donald called the short story "a brilliantly realized portrait of an isolated black woman in a small Middle Western town, who stoically survives her own sorrows but in the end lashes out against the hypocrisy of the whites who employ her."

External links

• Cora Unashamed at Rotten Tomatoes
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   The American Collection Cora Unashamed

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