The Making of America
English
The documentary film explores how Enlightenment-era systems of knowledge—art, science, architecture, and cartography—produced enduring frameworks for racial slavery, territorial extraction, and Indigenous dispossession in what became the United States of America. Quote from the Director, Monique Linder: “After our last film about Reconstruction Destructed, I felt it was important that the next film go back to the very beginning, the making of America. This film really helps tie all the pieces in the Juneteenth Reckoning with Slavery film series together in a significant way. I’m looking forward to sharing it with others.”
Cast
Leonard Peltier
Self (Artist/Activist)
David Pullins
Self (NY Metropolitan Museum of Met Curator)
Kevin Lindsey
Self (MN Humanities Center CEO)
Roger Cummings
Self (Juxtaposition CEO)
Joseph Ra Cole
Self (OMG Studios Innovation Lab)
Dr. Duchess Harris
Self (American Studies Professor)
Chase Iron Eyes
Self (Director, Sacred Defense Fund/Lakota People's Law Project)
Wasu Duta
Self (Headman of the Bdewakanton (Mdewakanton) Santee Dakota Sioux)
Patrice Epps
Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
Kanandi Mac
Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
Shah Hasan, Jr.
Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
Kiara Richardson
Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
Arame Sy
Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
Tre Warren
Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
Director
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