THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 88: Bound to the Fire w/Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz

Once again, I get to call on one of my old classmates to come on the show.  This time around we talk with professor and author Kelley Fanto Deetz.  Kelley was an advisor on a great film (that didn't get the respect it deserved) "Birth of a Nation".  Of course not the D.W. Griffith one from the turn of the century, but the amazing reimagining from 2016.  Here's a bit about Kelley:

 

Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz is a Research Associate at the James River Institute for Archaeology and Visiting Assistant Professor at Randolph College. She holds a B.A. from The College of William and Mary, and a M.A. and Ph.D.  from U.C. Berkeley. She specializes in early African Diaspora cultural history, archaeology, slavery, visual and material culture, and public history. She has worked as a historical consultant for television, museums, and for the film The Birth of a Nation. Deetz partnered with National Geographic to produce the documentary film Rise Up: The Legacy of Nat Turner (National Geographic Channel), and authored the cover story for the National Geographic History Magazine entitled Nat Turner’s Bones: Reclaiming an American Rebel. Her new book Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine was named one of the top ten books on food of 2017 by the Smithsonian Magazine. 

 

You can get Kelley's book here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06WP8885V/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0?author-follow=B07BFNKRWL&

 

Kelley on the front page of the Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/headstones-black-cemetery-potomac-river/2020/10/25/3586f0d4-0d7a-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html

 

Birth of a Nation Trailer:

https://youtu.be/ezWiUTXB11A

 

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