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The C. O. W. S. Octavia Butler's KINDRED
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Jul 17, 2011
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Podcast episode
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The Context of White Supremacy hosts a counter-racist review of the late Octavia Butler's 1979 science fiction classic, Kindred. This book is widely read in schools and colleges, and many Whites laud this book as one of the best sci-fi books ever penned. Butler was a black female who died in the Seattle, Washington area in 2010. Kindred revolves around a black female, Dana, who's in a "Tragic Arrangement" with a White Man. Dana travels back in time to a 19th century, Maryland slave plantation. Rufus, a White boy and future slave master, is the first person Dana meets when she travels back in time. The book reveals her connection to this White child and the humiliations and terrorism White slave owners heaped on black people. Interestingly, at one juncture, Dana compares Rufus to her White husband Kevin. Also, Butler discussed that her original intention was to have the main character be a black male. However, even on a make-believe plantation, Butler could not fathom a world where a black male from the future could survive one chapter on an 1800's plantation. #ReadingIsMoreImportantThanWatchingTelevision #TheCOWS INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE 564943#
Released:
Jul 17, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
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