• Roundtable: Birth of a Nation

  • Jun 25 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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  • One of the most controversial and innovative motion pictures in American history is D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation about the end of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Lost Cause mythology. Michael Connolly joins Dr. Robert Bland, Dr. Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, and Dr. Paul McEwan to discuss the way this film shaped, and continues to shape our conversations about race and politics.


    Essential Watching:


    D. W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation (1915).


    Recommended Reading:


    Allyson Hobbs, "A Hundred Years Later "Birth of a Nation" Hasn't Gone Away," New Yorker, December 13, 2015.


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