Home of the Slave: "The Birth of a Nation" and the Persistence of Slavery

Autor/in	Beck, Bernard
Titel	Home of the Slave: "The Birth of a Nation" and the Persistence of Slavery
Quelle	In: Multicultural Perspectives, 19 (2017) 3, S.162-165 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1521-0960
DOI	10.1080/15210960.2017.1335072
Schlagwörter	Slavery; African American History; United States History; African American Culture; Films; African Americans; Critical Viewing; War; Racial Bias; Freedom; Memory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sklaverei; Film; Afroamerikaner; Fernsehkritik; Krieg; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Freiheit; Gedächtnis
Abstract	Different subgroups in society have diverse motives for remembering or forgetting important events in history. In American history, slavery has had a deep and enduring bad effect on everything that came afterward. There have been attempts to forget or remember this chapter in the national narrative related to the intentions of subcultural groups in the present. The treatment of slavery in American movies has been a powerful factor in these attempts. Recent movies have returned to a focus on slavery at the same time that national opinion has turned away from African American issues and sympathies. The recent movie "The Birth of a Nation" exemplifies the new emphasis on slavery in the movies and the lack of concern for it in public discourse. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01