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the birth of a nation  

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  • American cinema was in its infancy when David Wark Griffith's epic saga was released in 1915. Based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, the film The Birth of a Nation continues to be hailed as a technological masterpiece as well as a triumph of white supremacist ideology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; The Birth of a Nation]

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