A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement<\/p>\n
\u201cNatchez swallowed a master narrative about the old south.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Suzannah Herbert\u2019s documentary Natchez, the opening remark from National Park Service ranger Barney Schoby functions as both diagnosis and thesis. The film that follows does not evade the Mississippi town\u2019s contradictions. Instead, it actively adjudicates them, staging white people\u2019s curated nostalgia against Black people\u2019s historical knowledge, lived experience and institutional fact.<\/p>\n
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