Screen/Society--Rights! Camera! Action! series--"Banished: American Ethnic Cleansing" - with filmmaker Marco Williams!

Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:45pm
Screen/Society--Rights! Camera! Action! series--"Banished: American Ethnic Cleansing" - with filmmaker Marco Williams!

Film Screening:

Banished: American Ethnic Cleansing
(Marco Williams, 2007, 84 min, USA, in English,  Color/B&W, DVD)

-- 6pm:  Reception in Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
-- 7pm:  Screening of Banished
             
(panel discussion to follow)

-- The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Marco Williams and William Chafe, Faculty Co-Director of the Duke Human Rights Center

 

Banished examines the legacy of racial cleansing incidents that occurred in communities scattered throughout the United States in the early twentieth century, when violent mobs forced thousands of African-American families to abandon their homes. Three communities are profiled, each approaching the challenge of reconciliation differently. In Forsyth County, Georgia, an African-American family seeks compensation for their lost land, legally transferred to white ownership by "adverse possession"; a reconciliation committee stalemates. Descendants of a family banished from Pierce City, Missouri, retrieve their great-grandfather's remains and ask the city to cover the cost. Harrison, Arkansas, is divided between those who would make amends for their town's racist past and those who are drawn to its lack of black people. The film raises broader questions about how past wrongs can or cannot be redressed, by whom, and through what acts.  [ More Info >> ]

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), the Archives for Human Rights & Documentary Arts in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI). Cosponsored by the Duke University Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Commemoration Committee and the Pauli Murray Project.

Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105 "Garage"