https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/054aef5d-a611-4a2d-93d6-42bd4fc57912 We'll be discussing Cedric Robinson's final book Forgeries of Memory & Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II. "All C**ns Look Alike to Me Song" (C/N really racist!) https://youtu.be/LYIBNJjEPlM?feature=shared This will be a multi-part series. In this episode we will discuss Chapter 3: Blackface Minstrelsy and Black Resistance. Per the UNC Press page Robinson "argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans. Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial beliefs and capitalism, beginning with Shakespearean England and the development of international trade. He demonstrates how the needs of American commerce determined the construction of successive racial regimes that were publicized in the theater and in motion pictures, particularly through plantation and jungle films. In addition to providing new depth and complexity to the history of black representation, Robinson examines black resistance to these practices. Whereas D. W. Griffith appropriated black minstrelsy and romanticized a national myth of origins, Robinson argues that Oscar Micheaux transcended uplift films to create explicitly political critiques of the American national myth. Robinson's analysis marks a new way of approaching the intellectual, political, and media racism present in the beginnings of American narrative cinema." We will discuss this text with Mtume Gant who is a filmmaker, actor, musician, and assistant professor of film at SUNY Purchase. Mtume is the director of the short flims Spit, White Face, and Mold of Malachi, as well as the forthcoming feature length film The Hand That Feeds. To support our work please contribute to patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:53:00 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/054aef5d-a611-4a2d-93d6-42bd4fc57912 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.