Kathryn Reklis has reviewed 8 films, documentaries and television shows on structural racism or systems of oppression; also on the culture of white supremacy. "Avoiding white moral infantilism," Christian Century, April 12, 2017.
1. I Am Not Your Negro is a documentary about James Baldwin; "Baldwin's words are as prophetic now as they were when he wrote them."
2. 13th is "about the rise of mass incarceration from the end of the Civil War to the present, laying out damning evidence of the persistence of structural racism." Relies heavily on Michelle Alexander and her book The New Jim Crow.
3. O.J.: Made in America. "Ezra Edelman's five part documentary is a master class on race, masculinity, sports culture, pop culture, police practices, real estate zoning, informal segregation, domestic violence, and celebrity culture,. . . . If you watch the three films in succession, you won't be able to claim that you don't understand how structural racism works or don't know what people mean by a culture of white supremacy."
Other films are Moonlight, Get Out, Fences, Atlanta and Represent.
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