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@drsepinwall@historians.social. 2023 Wang Award. Bks: Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Rev in Film & Video Games; Haitian History; Abbé Grégoire & the Fr Rev
Apr 24, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
My verdict on #ChevalierMovie. It is a good film to think about Black Europe and the erasure of memory. It is a not a great film about 18th C. France, slavery or the Revolution.

You should see it anyway & tell your students about it. 1/ Keep in mind first that it is VERY hard for a Black filmmaker to get greenlit for this kind of film from a Hollywood studio like Searchlight. & the last thing I want to do as a white scholar of Black French & Haitian history on film is to torpedo a film by a Black director 2/
Apr 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Back in notes from April 2019 to update a lesson I haven't taught since then. 3 days before the Poway murder & we had no idea what was coming... I announced a Yom Hashoah ceremony coming up on 5/1 I that was going to be plain & regular - not full of trauma & fresh shock... Yes, 2019 (the #BeforeTimes, the "golden era") before our lives changed... was an excruciating year...