The Birth of a Nation: My Reckoning with D.W. Griffith’s Grand, Racist Cinematic Spectacle

Former US president, Barack Obama, <a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/23/five-takeaways-from-barack-obama-cnn-interview/70349112007/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">remarked in a June 2023 interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour</a> that <a href="https://youtu.be/1MrTKuOOe54?si=R1IU5XLjeAHWK1QD" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">“race has always been the fault line of life and politics in the United States.”</a> His comments were made in the context of a recharged sense of division and lack of unity in the American body politic. A time recognised in 2015 by Prof Robert Lang, of the University of Hartford, as being <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbBYa9XHvhY" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the most divisive time for the United States of America since the Civil War</a>. It was also a reflection on the way that portions of American society can be sucked into silos through which they get told narrow stories that reinforce narrow forms of prejudice and prevent a sense of wider common national mission.  <a href="https://fanfare.pub/the-birth-of-a-nation-my-reckoning-with-d-w-griffiths-grand-racist-cinematic-spectacle-59cd4e858fb2">Read More</a>