In the United States of America every resident or citizen regardless of their ethnic and racial background has a choice to do whatever they want with their life.
In the United States of America every resident or citizen regardless of their ethnic and racial background has a choice to do whatever they want with their life.
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“We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the 100th anniversary of a targeted massacre of Black residents there by their white neighbors. Dozens of people were killed in the attacks, hundreds were hospitalized, and thousands were held hostage, some for days. More than 35 square blocks in the .
The Underground Railroad, noted that “before making this show … I would have said I am the descendant of enslaved Africans”.
“I think now that answer has evolved,” he continued. “I am the descendant of blacksmiths and midwives and herbalists and spiritualists.”
As a scholar interested in how modern representations of enslavement shape our understanding of the past, I am struck by the ways Jenkins seeks to change the way viewers think about – and talk about – Black American history.
In doing so, he takes the baton from scholars, activists and artists who have, for decades, attempted to shake up Americans’ understanding of slavery. Much of this work has centred on reimagining slaves not as objects who were acted upon, but as individuals who maintained identities and agency – however, limited – despite their status as property.