A discussion of Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust and Haile Gerima's Sankofa, centered on the question "What is an African American?" I explore how Dash answers this question by filtering the memory of Africa through the "American" part of African American, but Gerima inverts this prerogative and understands the "American" to be a sign of alienation that is redeemed by "African."

A discussion of Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust and Haile Gerima's Sankofa, centered on the question "What is an African American?" I explore how Dash answers this question by filtering the memory of Africa through the "American" part of African American, but Gerima inverts this prerogative and understands the "American" to be a sign of alienation that is redeemed by "African."

A discussion of Julie Dash's&nbsp;Daughters of the Dust&nbsp;and Haile Gerima's Sankofa,&nbsp;centered on the question "What is an African American?" I explore how Dash answers this question by filtering the memory of Africa through the "American" part of African American, but Gerima inverts this prerogative and understands the "American" to be a sign of alienation that is redeemed by "African."

Dash and Gerima on What is an African American

Podcasted process pieces from my course “Cinema of the Black Atlantic” at University of Maryland.

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Dash and Gerima on What is an African American

Dash and Gerima on What is an African American