The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erigha, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, and author of the new book, “The Hollywood Jim Crow: Racial Politics of the Movie Industry.” “Is it a sanitized whiteness, is it a whitewashed vision, or can we have this unapologetic Blackness, and that just be part of the American cultural canon?”
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When we are talking about religion, we are always already talking about race; and vice versa.
The author’s book is an exercise in excavating the imperialist ideologies in old primary school readers and vocabulary spellers.
Democratic Party voters are showing that the momentum for Medicare for All may not be stoppable.
Where most people see a “lone shooter,” the armed White Power movement sees “leaderless resistance.”
