Racism was not limited to slaveholders it was and is a pervasive part of society. What I mean by the first reason is that people do not often want to depict the pervasiveness and overwhelming nuanced magnitude of racism. The experience of Black women who, when they are present in such narratives, are often reduced to silent victims of assault (as in the recent film Birth of a Nation).Īll three of these influence each other and are therefore hard to untangle, but I’ll try to take each point as it relates to Underground Airlines and The Underground Railroad specifically.The exploitation of the pain of the slave’s experience including sexualized violence by using it to titillate the audience.The attempt to center whiteness in the narrative and demonize fellow slaves and Black people.There are three main reasons I feel this way: Personally, I would rather read a nonfiction collection of slave narratives and first-person accounts than someone’s fictionalized and often sanitized story. Winters by revealing that I don’t generally read or watch fictional slave narratives. I’ll start this dual review of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and Underground Airlines by Ben H. Given the choice? I’ll travel by rail, never by air.
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