![]() ![]() “It’s fantasy but Whitehead also gives a kaleidoscope of black history. Foner understands artists taking liberties with the facts, and he admires Whitehead’s fantastical creation of an actual railroad that runs underground. ![]() “I think it’s a good thing any time people are interested in history,” says Eric Foner, a leading scholar of 19th century America, whose 2015 book, “Gateway to Freedom,” focused on the Underground Railroad. “The original ‘Roots’ was the building block and writers like Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and August Wilson then paved the way,” he says, so that these Underground Railroad stories are a natural evolution. “Fiction is the way we learn about others,” he says, pointing to waves of groups laying down their markers, from Southern writers in the 1930s to Jewish writers in the decades after World War II. #PLAYSTV SHOULD I REMOVE IT MOVIE#“Underground” co-creator Misha Green puts all these new works in the larger context of publishers and producers recognizing the value - artistically and commercially - in stories about minorities, from the “Roots” remake to Oscar best-picture winner “Moonlight.” She points particularly to ones with characters seizing control of their own narrative, whether that’s “Straight Outta Compton” or “Hidden Figures.” Indeed, last year also begat a movie (“Birth of a Nation”) and a play (Nathan Alan Davis’ “Nat Turner in Jerusalem”) about Turner’s slave uprising.Īuthor Morgan, a professor at Cornell University, says the trend’s roots stretch back decades. ![]()
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