How feelings about race are normalized by media culture
University of Minnesota Press
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Azidunji's Ask a Slave
In the book I get to work through Azidunji's amazing Ask a Slave. She had been herself an actor at one of these like living history museums, right? And so she basically is drawing on her experience of the racist and sort of horrific things people asked her while she was playing an enslaved person. Also when I was in Virginia, I made this friend, Kanisha, who's a playwright and she and I were talking about Lorraine Hansberry’s screenplay for television called The Drinking GourdAbout the history of slavery. This was in 1959 and it was never aired because it was considered too much of a hot potato for TV. In part, it
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