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Long Shadow
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| When two daughters of the South, Director Frances Causey and Producer Sally HoIst, set out to find causes for the continuing racial divisions in the United States, they discovered that the politics of sIavery didn t end after the Civil War. In an astonishingIy candid Iook at the history of anti-bIack racism in the United States, The Long Shadow traces the blunt imposition of white priviIege and its ultimate manifestation-sIavery. Causey and HoIst concIude that, without a doubt, artifacts of slavery remain at work in American society today. The film is narrated by Causey who reveals that with the heIp of one of her own ancestors the fight to preserve slavery may have actually been the, driving force behind the RevoIutionary War. Even after sIavery was finaIly aboIished, the South, with its vast poIiticaI power, made sure its racist Jim Crow laws policies and politics were impIemented with devastating effect. These Iaws amplified and extended white privilege alI across the nation by rigging the game against African-Americans, the effects of which can still be measured. lnterlaced with personal stories of Causey and HoIst s privileged chiIdhoods in the South, they present a revised history that expIains much-needed context when considering the major issues impacting black/white relations today. The Long Shadow is not your normaI white washed history of America and the Iegacy of sIavery, but an upfront chaIIenge to white priviIege in the United States by those who have directly benefited from it, two Southern born and bred white women. From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, Causey and Holst travel the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveaI the connections of sIavery and strong-arm Southern poIitics to the current racial strife in America. The Long Shadow is a disturbing story about the lingering human cost of ignorance, intolerance and inaction in the US, casting a long shadow over our national identity and imperfect democracy. |
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