Pop This!: Episode 234: Daughters of the Dust

Episode 234: Daughters of the Dust

Jun 17, 2020

Summary:

This week we watch the poetic masterpiece Daughters of the Dust, a 1991 film written, directed and produced by Julie Dash, which tells the story of three generations of Gullah women living in a village on Saint Helena Island in South Carolina.

Daughters of the Dust was named one of the most significant films of the last 30 years by Indiewire, it was the inspiration for Beyonce’s Lemonade, the first feature film directed by an African-American woman distributed in the U.S. It is a classic film by a brilliant talent that has long gone underappreciated.

Show notes:

Daughters of the Dust on Criterion

Lemonade syllabus reading list (Left Bank Books)

Uprising & Abolition: Angela Davis on Movement Building, “Defund the Police” & Where We Go from Here (Democracy Now)

Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out. (NYTimes)

Solange, "Cranes in the Sky" (YouTube)

Recommendations:

Lisa: Queer Eye, Season 5 (Netflix)

Andrea W.: Witch Prophet, DNA Activation (music)

Andrea G.: DOXA Documentary Film Festival from June 18 - 26 (online film festival)

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear
From Free Music Archive
CC BY 3.0

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0