Contra Nationis Natum: Black Classicists Respond to Birth of a Nation

Authors

Jackie Murray, University of Kentucky

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Description

In this lecture, Dr. Jackie Murray (U. of Kentucky) looks at the reception of antiquity in the literature, theatre, and cinema of Charles Chestnutt, Kelly Miller, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Drusilla Dunjee Houston in their attempt to undermine the White supremacist collective memory of the reconstruction era that D. W. Griffith and others were concocting to contribute to the naturalization and justification of the racial class divisions in America, divisions that were becoming increasingly unmanageable for wealthy elites and politicians at the turn of the 20th century.

Publication Date

10-29-2021

Relational Format

presentation

Recommended Citation

Murray, Jackie, "Contra Nationis Natum: Black Classicists Respond to Birth of a Nation" (2021). Lecture Series. 49.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/classics_lectures/49