I agree. Not that movies should teach young people history, but last year when I told a white student that he could not paint his face brown to look more “Mexican” in a video he was making, he had no idea about the horrible, racist implications that action possessed. He did not know what a minstrel show was, nor did his mother. So maybe the movies will learn them about it?

Because thats what this movie is about right? Minstrel shows?

I was just telling my students that they all need to become engineers and not massage therapists but I guess I should have told them they need to become engineers instead of film students making a documentary about James Franco, the professor. Much better example.