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Guest: David Mura, "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"

Race to Social Justice

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The Ontology of Blackness

The movie is told mainly through the viewpoint of a young lawyer who was defending these men and his attempts to enlist John Quincy Adams Jr. entirely from a white perspective. So, in essence, what I feel as did is he created an African American novel, not a white savor movie. And yet he made it from the same film script. We don't really realize how words and categories shape how we think about the world. The definition of what means to be white in our society has since 1619 been controlled by white people. It's not a set of definitions a set of rules a set of beliefs that black people created, or any other people of color.

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