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The Underground Railroad (Miniseries) (2021) Douban TMDB
The Underground Railroad Season 1 part of TV Series: The Underground Railroad
8.1 (23 ratings) director: 巴里·詹金斯 actor: 乔尔·埃哲顿 / 威尔·保尔特
剧集根据科尔森·怀特黑德撰写,获得普利策小说奖的同名作品改编,讲述黑奴女孩科拉为逃离佐治亚的种植园,而寻找传闻中的“地下铁道”,而就在寻找的过程中,她发现真的存在着字面意义的地下铁道,帮助奴隶们逃离残酷的生活。詹金斯将执导全部11集,每集1小时。
Lost Children Archive Douban
author: Valeria Luiselli publishing house: Knopf Publishing Group 2019 - 2
A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate.
But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, unforgettable adventure--both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.
Fargo Season 4 (2020) Douban Fantastika TMDB
Fargo Season 4 part of TV Series: Fargo
7.4 (73 ratings) director: 诺亚·霍利 / 迪尔巴拉·沃尔什 actor: 克里斯·洛克 / 杰西·巴克利
本季由克里斯·洛克主演,杰克·休斯顿、本·韦肖、詹森·舒瓦兹曼、蒂莫西·奥利芬特、杰西·巴克利、萨尔瓦托雷·埃斯波西托、Andrew Bird、Jeremie Harris等也出演。主创Noah Hawley回归,故事聚焦敌对的黑人黑帮和意裔黑帮:
1950年代,堪萨斯有两大黑帮犯罪团伙,一个意大利裔,一个非裔,总是作对的双方在某时达成了难得的和平。为维持关系,帮派双方头领同意交换各自的小儿子。
洛克饰演非裔团伙的老大Loy Cannon,不得不将自己的儿子送到敌人手中,并抚养敌人的儿子。但随后,意大利黑手党的头领进医院做常规手术,却死掉了,于是一切大乱。
这一季主题被描述为“移民、同化和我们为了钱能干出来的事”,两个移民群体的交集和冲突:意大利来的意裔,为躲避吉姆克劳法案而逃出美国南方的非裔,作为两个黑帮团伙,为了各自的一线美国梦而斗争。
June 1, 2021 watched
不同角色對身份的理解好有意思。最噁心的角色就是那個聯邦法警,沒為國家留一滴血,卻滿嘴家國仁義教訓一個老兵,白美國的化身。Ethelrida簡直沒話講了…而且演員是紐奧良人 [我是無法阻擋的!吼...]。人在做,天在看,因果報應,為 Loy 的結局感到惋惜。
#Black #Criminal @NOLA @USA
Gook (2017) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gook
8.2 (8 ratings) director: 全知泰 actor: 西蒙妮·贝克 / 全知泰
other title: 韩国佬 / 无色国度(港)
A dramedy about 2 Korean-American brothers who have to defend their family's women's shoes store while contemplating the future of their own personal dreams and the meaning of family during the first day of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
May 10, 2021 watched
就得了這兩個獎?喲!三星的還佔了45%?!真看不出來冲國民間隱藏了這麼多美國社會問題專家,格局大如屌,怪不得要復興呢。去你爹的。如果對歷史背景不是很了解,最好是看過紀錄片<LA 92>再來看會有更深的感觸。打一個“留美一代亞裔必看劇情片”的標籤吧。
#Korean #Racism @USA
Without Remorse (2021) Douban TMDB IMDb
Without Remorse
4.8 (22 ratings) director: 斯特法诺·索利马 actor: 迈克尔·B·乔丹 / 朱迪·特纳-史密斯
other title: 冷血悍将 / 无悔
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
May 9, 2021 watched 最後提出的反恐建議目前看來很不怎麼樣。
現在看不下去戰爭和警匪片了。
#Black #War @USA
Between the World and Me Douban
8.3 (13 ratings) author: Ta-Nehisi Coates publishing house: Spiegel & Grau 2015 - 7
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
May 4, 2021 read
[有聲書] 先聽完的這個書,然後看的 Them 。就像Samyang辣雞面加了辣,還翻了倍。
#Black #Racism @USA
Them Season 1 (2021) Douban Eggplant.place TMDB
Them Season 1 part of TV Series: Them
8.4 (16 ratings) director: 尼尔森·克拉格 / 丹尼尔·斯坦 actor: 黛博拉·艾里德 / 阿什利·托马斯
The Emorys move to Compton, but Palmer Drive isn’t what it seems.
May 2, 2021 watched
看得昨天晚上楞沒敢去實驗室。不是說最生活化的情境最適合拍恐怖片嗎,什麼電梯啦 衛生間啦 電視機啦 壁櫥啦,可是如果是每天每時每刻每分每秒一舉一動都因為細胞裡某種氨基酸存在就像被詛咒了一樣,世世代代直到現在,都在懷疑自己、親人還有其他像自己一樣“被詛咒”的人,這樣的"生活場景"可真算是恐怖素材的頂配,這部劇也確實生動地拍出了這種窒息的壓迫。誰沒有過不幸,但是不是誰會都選擇與惡魔交易來填補自己心中的洞。
#Black #Criminal #Horror #Racism @USA
White Fragility Douban
author: Robin DiAngelo publishing house: Beacon Press 2018 - 6
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
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In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
April 30, 2021 read
[有聲書] 加一星因為其實特別適合Hans閱讀。各種縫合怪都在一波又一波浪潮的洗刷下露出了面目,也體現出縫合手法的越來越精細。皇漢這種基礎型的怪物儘管張牙舞爪反倒因其渾然天成而顯得無暇,倒是要理解那些承認基諾cide卻反對反省、不承認privilege的這些變種就顯得分外的困難。雖然這本書對於這些群體理解自己的漏洞是個不錯的路徑,但是2021年了還在要求要以如此客氣的態度來對待之,不能不讓人感到惱怒。
#Racism @USA
Kindred Douban
author: Octavia Butler publishing house: Beacon Press 2009 - 2
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Miniseries) (2021) Eggplant.place Douban TMDB
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Season 1 part of TV Series: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
6.6 (286 ratings) director: 卡莉·斯考格兰德 actor: 安东尼·麦凯 / 塞巴斯蒂安·斯坦
灭霸被终结后,“美国队长”史蒂夫·罗杰斯卸任,将盾牌交给了“猎鹰”山姆·威尔逊,相信他能够继承美国队长的精神。此后,“猎鹰”山姆·威尔逊和“冬兵”巴基·巴恩斯联合参与了一场全球性冒险行动 ……
April 25, 2021 watched 把Black大聲說出來。就像The Wire S3 裡提出Hamsterdam的Colvin對警察職責的深刻理解,Sam對這個社會 政府 個體的關係還有自己應該怎麼做去實現改變都說透了。感覺自己算是一個非暴力、拒絕機體改造的碎旗者。Do you hear people sing.…還是那句話,一個 Louisianian (aka WhoDat一輩子) 是絕對沒有可能把自己命名為 Falcon 的…絕對沒有…
#Black @USA
Greyhound (2020) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Greyhound
7.7 (361 ratings) director: 亚伦·施耐德 actor: 汤姆·汉克斯 / 斯蒂芬·格拉汉姆
other title: 灰猎犬号 / 怒海战舰(台)
2020 film directed by Aaron Schneider
April 19, 2021 watched 嘖 現在這樣醜化、妖魔化“敵軍”的方法有點看不下去了。潛艇戲份就出來的那種鬼叫不是讓人戰栗,是有點讓人覺得劣質的噁心,就像個頑劣幼童在惡作劇。[此片於路州首府Baton Rouge的Kidd海軍博物館停靠的Kidd號驅逐艦上拍攝]
#War @Louisiana @USA
Asian Americans (2020) Douban TMDB
Asian Americans Season 1 part of TV Series: Asian Americans
9.4 (19 ratings) actor: 兰道尔·朴
5月份是美国的亚太裔传统月。5月11开始东部时间晚8点,PBS将隆重播出讲述亚裔移民历史的五集系列记录片“Asian Americans"——《亚裔美国人》,听亚裔移民讲述他们自己的故事。从1843年5月第一位来自日本的移民踏上美国土地,亚裔美国人凭着勇气和坚韧,走过了移民制度演变,种族政治,国际关系动荡和文化的创新。贡献与抗争形影相随,美国之所以成为美国,离不开亚裔移民的非凡影响力。
《开天辟地》,《对美国忠诚的问题》,《美国模范族裔》,《崛起的一代》,《突破》——五个小时的五集纪录片重现150年漫长复杂的历史。
April 15, 2021 watched 對小白如我來講,這已經是個很好的引子了,對中西南亞裔涵蓋的不足,就要課後自己多留心了。觀看的時候除了盡力控制激動的情緒也一直在琢磨自己對身份的認識,發現對任何寫在證件/paper上的“法定身份”都極其鄙視,但對此之外的各種“精X”極其熱衷。因為那些才是我自己在天賜機緣的撮合下主動尋求、體驗、學習、在和現實或歷史中的人互動共情一點點建立的,不需要去討好任何人間權力的愚蠢法條。
#Asian #Documentary #History #Racism @USA
Our Time Is Now Douban
author: Stacey Abrams publishing house: Henry Holt & Company 2020 - 6
Beloved national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams offers an empowering blueprint to ending voter suppression, reclaiming identity, and reshaping progressive politics.
Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity -- who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics, citizens are harmed in overt, subtle, and even personal ways. Stacey Abrams experienced the effects firsthand, running one of the most unconventional races in modern politics as the Democratic nominee for the governorship in Georgia and the first black woman major party nominee in American history. Abrams did not become governor, but she will not concede. And the reason she won’t is because democracy failed voters. However, fixing suppression isn’t enough unless we understand how it works and how identity plays a pivotal role. Suppression and identity altered the 2016 presidential election -- and will do the same in 2020. But progress can win, and here Abrams lays out how.
In Our Time Is Now, Abrams draws on extensive national research from her voter rights organization, Fair Fight Action, and her 2020 Census effort, Fair Count, as well as moving and personal anecdotes from her own life. Abrams weaves together the experiences of those who have fought for the vote and the right to be seen throughout our nation’s history, linking them with how law and policy deny real political power. So much hangs in the balance for the 2020 election, and the stakes could not be higher. Our Time Is Now will galvanize those seeking change. It will be a critical book by the expert on fair voting and access that will show us where we fall short, who America is now, and most importantly, empower us to become the democracy we’re meant to be.
April 8, 2021 read
[有聲書] 關於選民壓制的花招可以說是耳熟能詳了,但是更多細節的呈現,更讓人深切感受到被壓制者在權力面前的脆弱。另外作者關於自己對內政與外交其實沒有界限這一點的覺悟真是振奮人心 (雖然國際路線/視野其實一直是美國/美洲黑人運動的重要傳統)。
#Politics @USA
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Douban Goodreads
author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz publishing house: Beacon Press 2014 - 9
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.”

Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Minari (2020) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Minari
7.1 (312 ratings) director: 李·以萨克·郑 actor: 史蒂文·元 / 韩艺璃
other title: 米纳里 / 农情家园(港)
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
March 28, 2021 watched
……導演是在我家裝過竊聽器嗎…有的地方有點生硬、出戲,但是憑那些熟悉的對話,加一星。
但是不太明白把那些神叨病態的白人基督元素加進去作為對立面是為什麼,而且最後驕傲的亞裔還是從了。讓我很想再扣一分。
#AsianAmerican #Family #Immigrant @USA
Illuminatives Douban
Supaman genre: Hip Hop
release date 2019-06-28 publisher: Illuminative Music
As a member of the “Apsaalooke Nation”, Supaman makes his home on the Crow reservation in Montana. “Supaman” Is Christian Takes Gun Parrish, a Native American dancer and innovative hip hop artist who has dedicated his life to empowering and spreading a message of hope and faith through hip hop music.