The Rumpus Review of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation
Parker set out to bring a different kind of “slavery movie” to audiences. And it is different.
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Posts Tagged: The Birth of a Nation
All Bravado, Little Spirit
For the New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham writes that whatever your thoughts on the Nate Parker controversy, the new film The Birth Of A Nation is best left unseen: “Twelve Years” and, especially, “Django” promised to widen the expressive possibilities of the slave story—to add to the cultural meanings of the country’s gravest crime. Parker, though, works within […]
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Famous Rapes #3: Lynching and “The One Crime”
The KKK, The Birth of a Nation, and the origins of The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.
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