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Viet Thanh Nguyen (@viet_t_nguyen) on American's collective preservation of innocence: “We are, as a nation, perpetually shocked every time something contradicts our mythology of ourselves.” #StoryOfUs

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? #StoryOfUs

“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

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 …

Hollywood studios used the ban on miscegenation to justify the exclusion of non-white actors from employment #UTBxSundance #StoryOfUs

#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. #StoryOfUs

“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 @viet_t_nguyen. What are the impacts of this narrative scarcity?

"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." #StoryOfUs