The Cynical Historian

Mudbound | Based on a True Story (2018x23)

Air date: Jul 30, 2018

Mudbound is startlingly dark in just the right kind of way. Netflix has had quite a few duds with their movies, but somehow they managed to produce a superb work of historical fiction here. Yes it’s fictional, but it’s also based on very real situations. It follows a Black and a White family on a farm in Jim Crow Mississippi, during and after WWII - which was not a nice place to be. ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Lambert, Frank. The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States’ Rights. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010. https://amzn.to/2J5J3P9 Oshinsky, David M. Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997. https://amzn.to/2u0KwBS Waldrep, Christopher. The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. https://amzn.to/2KElx1n Blee, Kathleen M. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. https://amzn.to/2NzeHbl https://www.npr.org/2017/11/16/563290560/mudbound-is-a-grand-sweeping-epic-of-the-jim-crow-south ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or pick up some merchandise at SpreadShirt: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cynicalhistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: Mudbound is a 2017 American period drama film directed by Dee Rees and written by Rees and Virgil Williams, based on the novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan. It stars Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, and Mary J. Blige. The film depicts two World War II veterans – one white, on