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African Americans In The Film The Birth Of A Nation

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The Birth of a Nation is the depiction of post-war America as how it was seen by southerner. It is effective in glorifying the KKK and belittling freed African-Americans. It is vile and disturbing, the film sails with racist stereotypes at its helm. Blackface actors only add to the already bitter and degrading factor about this film's portrayal of black Americans after the Civil War. Though the film was actually done 40 years after the reconstruction, the story still seemed to resonate closely with the southerners mind. So then, what is now seen as the Reconstruction Era is now muddled by the thought of the U.S. being controlled in a disorderly manner by blacks; compared to the reality of Reconstruction explained by Eric Foner. One of the
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