The Birth of a Nation
Directed by D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation released in 1915 was deeply disturbing to anyone concerned about the state of race relations. It's impact was disastrous and the approval of it and the screening of it in the White House by President Woodrow Wilson is something I still find shocking.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow PBS Series
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The Birth of a Nation
I am a writer and a professor of English at the City College of New York, and the CUNY Graduate Center. My books include Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (1979), Invisibility Blues (1990), Black Popular Culture (1992), and Dark Designs and Visual Culture (2005). I write cultural criticism frequently and am currently working on a project on creativity and feminism among the women in my family, some of which is posted on the Soul Pictures blog.
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- Michele Wallace
- I am a writer and a professor of English at the City College of New York, and the CUNY Graduate Center. My books include Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (1979), Invisibility Blues (1990), Black Popular Culture (1992), and Dark Designs and Visual Culture (2005). I write cultural criticism frequently and am currently working on a project on creativity and feminism among the women in my family, some of which is posted on the Soul Pictures blog.
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