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Writing About Film by Jules LeFort-Cleary: Free State of Jones

Scholarly Sources

  • Reed, Adolph. “The Trouble With Uplift: How Black Politics Succumbed to the Siren Song of the Racial Voice.” The Baffler, no. 41, 2018, pp. 50–66. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26494531. 

  • Thomas, George Porter. “Seeing in the Dark: Film and the Slave Past.” American Studies, vol. 59, no. 1, 2020, pp. 71–92. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45294418. 

  • STEVENSON, BRENDA E. “Filming Black Voices and Stories: Slavery on America’s Screens.” Journal of the Civil War Era, vol. 8, no. 3, 2018, pp. 488–520. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26483636.

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If you cannot find the article, email Mrs. LeFort-Cleary at jules.lefort@montgomerybell.edu with the article citation and she can assist you. 

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