Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the
history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film,
D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated
musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and the
first great American opera, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Each
of these works sought to make a statement about American identity
in the form of a narrative, and each included in that narrative a
prominent role for Black people.Each work included jarring or
discordant elements that pointed to a deeper tension between the
kind of stories Americans wish to tell about themselves and the
historical and social reality of race. Although all three have been
widely criticized, their efforts to connect the concepts of nation
and race are not only instructive about the history of the American
imagination but also provide unexpected resources for contemporary
reflection.
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