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Spotlight on WITHIN OUR GATES with Racquel Gates

Within Our Gates • 6m 40s

In the latest installment of our Spotlight series, film scholar Racquel J. Gates unpacks Oscar Micheaux’s 1920 classic WITHIN OUR GATES, a landmark of American silent film that deploys stunning cinematic innovations to tell its story from a Black perspective.

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