Whitney Dow

Doc Talk: Making Reparations, Restoring a Reputation, Redrawing Identities

January 19, 2023
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Reviews of the cogent and well-crafted The Big Payback, the comprehensive if conventional Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space, and No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, which expertly balances whimsy and gravity, though the version of the film shown by PBS has been heavily censored.

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Television Review: “The Big Payback” — The Road Toward Reparations

January 18, 2023
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The Big Payback doesn’t exhibit a clear slant either way: it simply tells the tale of how a bill asking for reparations came to be, along the way highlighting how past injustice shapes present inequities.

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