The Birth of a Nation at 100 Discussion (2015)
Speakers Prof Cedric Robinson (University of California), Prof Jane Gaines (Columbia University), Prof Robert Lang (University of Hartford), Prof Jacqueline Stewart (University of Chicago) and Prof Paul McEwan (Muhlenberg College) talk about the effect D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915) had on audiences 100 years ago and the underside of racism today.