Reconsidering Roots
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These essays -- from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies -- interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.
United states, race relationsUnited states, politics and government, 20th centurySlavery on televisionAfrican Americans on televisionRacism on televisionRace on televisionRoots (Television program : 1977)