Archive for the ‘Race’ Category
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Forget The Alamo – History Surfacing
31 Jan 2022History, it is said, is written by the winners. Well, not always. The history of the Alamo, as it has…
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward E Baptist
14 Jan 2022The international slave-trade from Africa to the New World was banned by England in 1807, America in 1808, Spain, Sweden…
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“Blood Done Sign My Name” & “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” – Two Stories of the White South
20 Dec 2021Following my reading of Susan Neiman’s, Learning From the Germans, in which she examines America’s and Germany’s differing responses to the…
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Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
06 Dec 2021Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other…
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer
29 Oct 2021Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list. By unhappy coincidence this turned out…
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Black Boy – Richard Wright
27 Aug 2021It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it…
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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
26 Aug 2020For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your…
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“The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
02 Jul 2020“Why do you have your guns out?” – Kenneth Chamberlain, 66 “What are you following me for?” – Trayvon Martin,…
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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? a documentary ….
03 Mar 2018Travis Wilkerson’s new film, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, is having a few, hard to find, viewings in the…
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James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
23 Mar 2017Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a…
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Movies: Documenting the Black Experience
17 Mar 2017Two documentary films from 2016 have made important splashes in the sea of movies available this year, not as big…
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Movies: Black Fiction, Black History
22 Feb 2017What a great couple of months it’s been for movies about the African-American experience. The African-American Film Critics Association calls 2016…
