Comments on: What if the South had won the Civil War? http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/02/23/what-if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:04:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Aaron http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/02/23/what-if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war/#comment-4910 Aaron Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:16:08 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/index.php/archives/2006/02/what-if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war/#comment-4910 Carmen and Jen (and all your readers!), go see this movie if you haven't already. And I'd also like to suggest an interview with the director for a future episode of ATR. I went to one of the early New York screenings and talked with the director afterwards. He was a really nice guy and very approachable. What I found so refreshing about the film is that it is in no way limited to black and white, but it is really an exploration of the issue of race in American society - a society that in the alternate reality of CSA is somewhat surreal but at times eerily familiar. Carmen and Jen (and all your readers!), go see this movie if you haven’t already. And I’d also like to suggest an interview with the director for a future episode of ATR. I went to one of the early New York screenings and talked with the director afterwards. He was a really nice guy and very approachable. What I found so refreshing about the film is that it is in no way limited to black and white, but it is really an exploration of the issue of race in American society - a society that in the alternate reality of CSA is somewhat surreal but at times eerily familiar.

]]> By: Robert Reed http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/02/23/what-if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war/#comment-4796 Robert Reed Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:09:25 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/index.php/archives/2006/02/what-if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war/#comment-4796 One interesting series is one that deals with an Alternate America in which blacks ended up colonizing America, and built a global empire of Islamic Africans using Europeans as slaves. The two novels in this series, written by Steve Barnes, are "Zulu Heart" and "Lion's Blood". There is a website for that here: http://www.lionsblood.com/ The two can also be Amazoned. One interesting series is one that deals with an Alternate America in which blacks ended up colonizing America, and built a global empire of Islamic Africans using Europeans as slaves. The two novels in this series, written by Steve Barnes, are “Zulu Heart” and “Lion’s Blood”.

There is a website for that here: http://www.lionsblood.com/

The two can also be Amazoned.

]]> By: Lyonside http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/02/23/what-if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war/#comment-4791 Lyonside Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:05:25 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/index.php/archives/2006/02/what-if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war/#comment-4791 Oh WOW. I'm interested in this. And if anyone hasn't read the book or seen the HBO movie (rentable), and you're into this kind of revisionist "what if" history, consider Fatherland: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000EZTR/sr=8-2/qid=1140735479/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-1540760-9416049?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance Oh WOW. I’m interested in this.

And if anyone hasn’t read the book or seen the HBO movie (rentable), and you’re into this kind of revisionist “what if” history, consider Fatherland:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000EZTR/sr=8-2/qid=1140735479/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-1540760-9416049?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

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