Basic Black; 3207; Conversation With Alice Randall
- Series
- Basic Black
- Episode Number
- 3207
- Episode
- Conversation With Alice Randall
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-15-83kwhxb1
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Novelist, scholar and screenwriter Alice Randall, author of the controversial parody The Wind Done Gone, talks with host Darren Duarte about the mythic status of Margaret Mitchell's seminal Gone With the Wind and its troubling influence in shaping images of contemporary African Americans in this country and abroad. On May 16, novelist, scholar and screenwriter Alice Randall, author of the parody The Wind Done Gone, talks with Basic Black host Darren Duarte about the mythic status of Gone with the Wind and how it has consequently shaped images of contemporary African Americans. The Wind Done Gone is told from the point of view of Scarlett O'Hara's mulatto half-sister and borrows some scenes and dialogue from the original novel. Although the ban on the publication of The Wind Done Gone was lifted in appeals court last year, the Margaret Mitchell Trusts has asked the full court to overturn the ruling. "Particularly when I've traveled overseas, I've been asked time and again whether the book is an accurate description of the African American experience," says Randall. "It's time to expose the world to another perspective on the painful legacy of slavery." Randall graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1981. As a screenwriter, she has worked on adaptations of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Parting the Waters, and Brer Rabbit. Randall first read Gone with the Wind when she was twelve years old. Years later, a question came to trouble her: where were the mulatto children of Tara? It was a question that interested her personally: she is of mixed-race ancestry and has been told that her great-great-grandfather was Confederate General Edmund Pettus. The Wind Done Gone is Alice Randall's first novel.
- Description
- No description available
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:30:53;20
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Production Unit: Local Productions
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: cpb-aacip-2019a936df2 (Filename)
Format: Betacam
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:28:46
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Basic Black; 3207; Conversation With Alice Randall,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-83kwhxb1.
- MLA: “Basic Black; 3207; Conversation With Alice Randall.” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-83kwhxb1>.
- APA: Basic Black; 3207; Conversation With Alice Randall. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-83kwhxb1