Title: Reconsidering Roots
Description: 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.
Subjects: United states, race relations, United states, politics and government, 20th century, Slavery on television, African Americans on television, Racism on television, Race on television, Roots (Television program : 1977)