{"id":1688,"date":"2023-04-11T08:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2023-04-11T08:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:38:38","slug":"diversity-film-series-the-birth-of-a-nation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/2023\/04\/11\/diversity-film-series-the-birth-of-a-nation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Film Series: The Birth of a Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wednesday, April 12, 5:00 &#8211; 7:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">A&amp;S 109<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 12.0pt\">Moderator: Dr. Larry Green, Professor of African American History<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 12.0pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 12.0pt\"><em>Birth of a Nation<\/em> (1915), the first film ever screened at the White House, perpetuated the racist stereotypes from the antebellum minstrel stage and pro-slavery propaganda depictions of happy slaves contented with bondage. The \u201cheroes\u201d of this film were the \u201cnight riders\u201d of the Ku Klux Klan. The film\u2019s original title, <em>The Clansman<\/em>, was based on Thomas Dixon\u2019s book, <em>The Clansman<\/em>. The post-Civil War South is distorted from a place of oppression of four million victims of slavery to one in which their owners are portrayed as the victims of northern vengeance and alleged primitive barbarism of African Americans not ready for nor entitled to freedom and citizenship. Rescue, reconciliation, and reconstruction are all achieved by Klan machismo and terror. African American civil rights organizations protested, but to no avail. Birth of a Nation contributed to the entrenchment of American racism and justification of the \u201cJim Crow\u201d era of which it was so much a part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 12.0pt\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 12, 5:00 &#8211; 7:30pm A&amp;S 109 Moderator: Dr. Larry Green, Professor of African American History Birth of a Nation (1915), the first film ever screened at the White&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-opportunities","category-forthcoming-events"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}