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Twenty-First-Century Slavery Or, How to Extend the Confederacy for Two Centuries Beyond Its Planned Demise

Twenty-First-Century Slavery Or, How to Extend the Confederacy for Two Centuries Beyond Its... Film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America directed by Kevin Willmott reviewed BY trudier harris In a series of vignettes, with the thread of a single white family's involvement in slavery holding Willmott's film together, C.S.A. moves through scenes of slavery, war, Reconstruction, imperialist expansion, domestic crises, imagined post-slavery slavery, and contemporary politics. Commercials offer viewers ways of keeping their slaves docile (including behavior-altering pills in more contemporary times), aids to their cleaning work (the Gold Dust Twins), pleasure whose logos are identified with blacks ("Niggerhead Tobacco"), toothpaste commercials ("Sambo Bright"), and advice on tracking blacks suffering from the dreaded runaway disease. Poster courtesy of IFC Films and C.S.A. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, conceived and filmed by Kevin Willmott and presented by Spike Lee, is a mockumentary -- that is, a film designed to spoof various historical television documentaries, especially work in the vein of that of Ken Burns. An extended contemplation of what it would have meant to the western hemisphere if the American South had won the Civil War, C.S.A. was ostensibly made by a British company and is replete with the requisite commercials of a television production. These are sometimes as innocuous as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Twenty-First-Century Slavery Or, How to Extend the Confederacy for Two Centuries Beyond Its Planned Demise

Southern Cultures , Volume 12 (3) – Aug 3, 2006

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Film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America directed by Kevin Willmott reviewed BY trudier harris In a series of vignettes, with the thread of a single white family's involvement in slavery holding Willmott's film together, C.S.A. moves through scenes of slavery, war, Reconstruction, imperialist expansion, domestic crises, imagined post-slavery slavery, and contemporary politics. Commercials offer viewers ways of keeping their slaves docile (including behavior-altering pills in more contemporary times), aids to their cleaning work (the Gold Dust Twins), pleasure whose logos are identified with blacks ("Niggerhead Tobacco"), toothpaste commercials ("Sambo Bright"), and advice on tracking blacks suffering from the dreaded runaway disease. Poster courtesy of IFC Films and C.S.A. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, conceived and filmed by Kevin Willmott and presented by Spike Lee, is a mockumentary -- that is, a film designed to spoof various historical television documentaries, especially work in the vein of that of Ken Burns. An extended contemplation of what it would have meant to the western hemisphere if the American South had won the Civil War, C.S.A. was ostensibly made by a British company and is replete with the requisite commercials of a television production. These are sometimes as innocuous as

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Aug 3, 2006

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