“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'”
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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
