From the Search for the American Dream to the Journey Back to Southern Roots: Cinematic Representations of Black Migrations
African Americans are excluded from the myth of the ‘nation of immigrants’ due to the forced nature of their relocation to the American continent. Yet, this exclusion can engender an association of blackness with lack of mobility and agency in the national imaginary, which obscures historical constr...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1002 |