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This new welter of platforms and voices seeking to promulgate and validate the acceptable terms of black leadership

Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 race film Django Unchained reduced slavery and manumission to the antics of a spaghetti-Western-style hero who in fact never challenges slavery but fixates only on rescuing his wife

disparaged the film as a “white savior narrative”—a phrase that is now a routine derogation of certain cross-racial sagas of resistance to white supremacy

pain belongs in therapy, fortified by the anodyne paintings and muted by the padded walls

The sententious tracts of the Gilded Age had always been aimed at breadwinners and would-be financiers, which is to say, at men