As a chronicle of how power often colludes with culture in the construction of a mythological past, the film ought to provoke us to consider how the reconstruction of our histories is of utmost importance in our present era
Gerald Horne
Gerald Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moors Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of over 40 books, including Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists (University of California Press, 2001), Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music (Monthly Review Press, 2019), From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2015), White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communisim vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela (International Publishers, 2019), and Armed Struggle?: Panthers and Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties and Seventies (International Publishers, 2024). His most recent book, African Americans & A New History of the USA, is available from International Publishers.