"When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." - Author Unknown
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"Combining an excellent selection of archival materials with new interviews, Causey presents an eloquent argument regarding a persistent flaw in America’s democratic dream... Recommended."
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"Frances Causey's personal journey in exposing her own family's history of slaveholding
and how the institution of slavery continues to have an impact today is both brave and incredible...
a must see, over and over again!
- Yolanda Smith
Executive Director, NAACP Houston Branch
and how the institution of slavery continues to have an impact today is both brave and incredible...
a must see, over and over again!
- Yolanda Smith
Executive Director, NAACP Houston Branch
"a moving personal and informative history of anti-Black racism in the US packed with revealing details and analysis and leading us towards understanding, healing, and commitment to work for racial justice.
A must see for white people concerned about racial equity and social justice."
- Paul Kivel
Co-founder, Showing Up for Racial Justice
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"...digs deep into the roots of slavery and racism in this informative, powerful documentary."
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"a gripping personalized history lesson, with Causey covering salient points, including how economics drove the despicable trading of humans. Her of-the-moment feature couldn't be more necessary."
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"Phenomenal...
Every church ought to see this film." - Rory Smith
Anti-Racism Commission of the Episcopal Archdiocese of Chicago |
"Challenges the common history lessons we've been taught... helps dispel the myths we've been taught about how this country was founded... exposes this hidden foundation we have around systemic racism."
- Laura Singer
St. John's Episcopal Church |
An Essential Educational and Research Tool For Communities Exploring:
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• African American Studies
• Race & Ethnicity
• Social Justice
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• U.S. History
• American Studies
• Diversity & Oppression
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Directed By
Frances Causey Runtime: 84 min Rating: NR Public Performance Rights Licensing:
Starting at $299 Organizations & institutions please contact info@passionriver.com for a quote Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: When two daughters of the South, Director Frances Causey and Producer Sally Holst, set out to find causes for the continuing racial divisions in the United States, they discovered that the politics of slavery didn’t end after the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the history of anti-black racism in the United States, “The Long Shadow” traces the blunt imposition of white privilege and its ultimate manifestation-slavery. Causey and Holst conclude that, without a doubt, artifacts of slavery remain at work in American society today. The film is narrated by Causey who reveals that with the help of one of her own ancestors the fight to preserve slavery may have actually been “the,” driving force behind the Revolutionary War. Even after slavery was finally abolished, the South, with its vast political power, made sure its racist Jim Crow laws policies and politics were implemented with devastating effect. These laws amplified and extended white privilege all across the nation by rigging the game against African-Americans, the effects of which can still be measured. Interlaced with personal stories of Causey and Holst’s privileged childhoods in the South, they present a revised history that explains much-needed context when considering the major issues impacting black/white relations today. “The Long Shadow” is not your normal white washed history of America and the legacy of slavery, but an upfront challenge to white privilege in the United States by those who have directly benefited from it, two Southern born and bred white women. From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, Causey and Holst travel the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveal the connections of slavery and strong-arm Southern politics to the current racial strife in America. “The Long Shadow” is a disturbing story about the lingering human cost of ignorance, intolerance and inaction in the US, casting a long shadow over our national identity and imperfect democracy. |
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