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Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America

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Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2007)

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Reviews Counted:13

Fresh:11

Rotten:2

Average Rating:6.9/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Sep 26, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: This story of three U.S. towns which, in the early 20th century, forced their entire African American populations to leave, explores what—if anything—can be done to repair past racial injustice. ... This story of three U.S. towns which, in the early 20th century, forced their entire African American populations to leave, explores what—if anything—can be done to repair past racial injustice. --© Sundance Film Festival [More]

Director: Marco Williams

Director: Marco Williams
Studio: Working Films

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Williams isn't afraid to ask -- without providing any definitive answer -- whether black people are owed something for the legacy they were denied, and whether the grandchildren of the people who denied it should be properly held accountable.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
09/28/07
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

Marco Williams’s latest investigation into race relations suggests, seemingly without intending to, how much the language of pop psychology has vitiated our nation’s discourse on the atrocities committed on its soil.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
09/27/07
Melissa Anderson
Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York

This crucially important documentary from filmmaker Marco Williams examines three cases in particular, and raises some difficult questions about what can be done in the present to make up for the crimes of the past.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/27/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Banished offers a startling tour into an unforgotten history that remains invisible to most Americans.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
09/27/07
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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There are ghosts haunting Banished, about the forced expulsion of black Southerners from their homes in the troubled and violent decades after the Civil War.

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09/26/07
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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In Banished, Marco Williams investigates, with even-handed and nuanced precision, the shameful and suppressed history of white communities banishing African-Americans from their homes between the end of the Civil War and the 1920s.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
09/26/07
Lisa Katzman
Lisa Katzman
Village Voice
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A reflective and thought-provoking documentary, guided by Williams' sensitivity to the subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism that spurred those events.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
09/26/07
Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International

Banished effectively evokes the manner in which events of the past are carried into the present via cultural traditions, artifacts, and unspoken local histories.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
09/25/07
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine

They say The South has changed, but you wouldn't know it from this jaw-dropping shocker you have to see to be believe.

Full Review Source: Black Star News | comment Comment
06/19/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
Black Star News

A forceful and disturbing, emotionally resonant investigative inquiry into the sordid hidden history of racial cleansing of towns across America.

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02/15/07
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
WBAI Web Radio

Pic's enormous social importance is unfortunately neutralized by merely adequate filmmaking.

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02/06/07
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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Enlightening docu about an unknown chapter in the history of racism.

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01/30/07
James Greenberg
James Greenberg
Hollywood Reporter
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Banished contains enough insights into race relations to be worth watching.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
01/25/07
Jeremy Mathews
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