Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) asks, “what does it mean when a founding document for American cinema is a spectacular heroic narrative of white supremacy, political terrorism, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan?" #StoryOfUs
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The idea of Hollywood as America's unofficial ministry of propaganda... In the modern era, in what ways does Hollywood continue to play this role?
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“I don't think it's enough for storytellers to say, ‘Okay. We'll have to do better.’ No. You are obligated now to repair the damage you did with a half century of stories about native people that perpetuated these ideas that they were not fully human.” -Bryan Stevenson #StoryOfUs
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Who is in position to narrate this new era? Who is writing our stories? We know that Black women, for example, are underrepresented throughout mediahttps://twitter.com/AAPolicyForum/status/1363932973360381952?s=20 …
On screen and behind the scenes, in Hollywood and in our newsrooms, Black women are underrepresented. Here are 5 things to know about the status of Black women in media
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Hollywood studios used the ban on miscegenation to justify the exclusion of non-white actors from employment
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#UTBxSundance viewers: what are your favorite predictable tropes/characters/storylines in cinema's inability to represent race in America?@sandylocks went with Atticus Finch. We’ll retweet the best.#StoryOfUsNäytä tämä ketju -
“If you're a minority in American society of whatever kind—racial, sexual, whatever—you live in a condition of narrative scarcity, which means that almost none of the stories are about you,” says
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"Imagination is a contested field of action," says
@ruha9. "It's not an ephemeral afterthought that we have the luxury to dismiss or romanticize. Imagination is a resource, a battleground and input and output of technologies in social order."#StoryOfUsNäytä tämä ketju -
"Most people are forced to live inside someone else's imagination. One of the things we have to come to grips w/ is how the nightmares that we see many people are forced to endure are really the underside of elite fantasies about efficiency, happiness, profit, social control."
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"The real reckoning, I would say, is to welcome the discomfort, the pain, the habitual changes that need to happen, not just the spectacular ones that may get an academy award," says
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Closing remarks from
@sandylocks: “As we move into more uncertain territory as a nation, I hope that this conversation today can serve as a model for how we can look to our unjust past to build a more just future.”#UTBxSundance#StoryOfUsNäytä tämä ketju -
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