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 REVIEW: "MUDBOUND" IS A RACIAL EPIC TUNED TO BLACK LIVES, AND WHITE
GUILT
[https://new.portside.org/2017-11-28/review-mudbound-racial-epic-tuned-black-lives-and-white-guilt]


 [https://new.portside.org/2017-11-28/review-mudbound-racial-epic-tuned-black-lives-and-white-guilt]
 A.O. SCOTT 
_ NY Times _ 
 Pappy’s snarling, slur-spewing villainy verges on caricature, but
“Mudbound” does not pretend that his is the only, or even the most
insidious, face of white supremacy. Nor does the film locate the
poison of racism principally in the attitudes and feelings of the
dominant race. What Hap and Florence are up against as they try to
provide for their children and hold onto their dignity is a system of
organized expropriation — a heritage of plunder (to borrow a term
from the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates) designed to keep them poor,
precarious and dependent. Their labor provides an insurance policy for
Henry’s bad luck and incompetence. Their successes will be punished
so his failures can be mitigated and his entitlement upheld. What’s
theirs is his. 

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