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In this chapter the author reflects on Armond White’s and Paul Gilroy’s careers as film and culture critics and intellectuals within the rebel generation. The author specifically examined the two authors contrasting perspectives of the film 12 Years a Slave. Topics discussed in this chapter included film criticism and theory, academic discourse, anti-black racism, and black liberation.

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Daniel McNeil

DANIEL MCNEIL is a professor in the department of gender studies at Queen’s University and the Queen’s national scholar chair in Black studies. His scholarship and teaching in Black Atlantic studies explore how movement, travel, and relocation have transformed and boosted creative development, the writing of cultural history, and the calculation of political choices. He is the author of Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic and, with Yana Meerzon and David Dean, a co-editor of Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. He lives in Tkaronto/Toronto.