{"id":48078,"date":"2016-07-03T22:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48078"},"modified":"2016-07-03T22:17:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T22:17:20","slug":"but-newton-knight-was-an-actual-historical-figure-who-aided-african-americans-and-the-film-is-based-on-a-well-researched-book-by-historian-victoria-bynum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48078","title":{"rendered":"But [Newton] Knight was an actual historical figure who aided African-Americans, and the film is based on a well-researched book by historian Victoria Bynum."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Some critics complain that the film suffers from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_savior_narrative_in_film\" target=\"_blank\">white savior narrative<\/a> because <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_McConaughey\" target=\"_blank\">[Matthew] McConaughey<\/a> plays a white protagonist who aids former slaves. But <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_Knight\" target=\"_blank\">[Newton] Knight<\/a> was an actual historical figure who aided African-Americans, and the film is based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=3767\" target=\"_blank\">well-researched book<\/a> by historian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vikki_bynum\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Bynum<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adam Domby, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48068\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Free State of Jones\u2019 depicts realities of Reconstruction<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Post and Courier<\/em>, July 3, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/20160703\/160709926\/free-state-of-jones-depicts-realities-of-reconstruction\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/20160703\/160709926\/free-state-of-jones-depicts-realities-of-reconstruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some critics complain that the film suffers from a white savior narrative because [Matthew] McConaughey plays a white protagonist who aids former slaves. But [Newton] Knight was an actual historical figure who aided African-Americans, and the film is based on a well-researched book by historian Victoria Bynum. Adam Domby, \u201c\u2018Free State of Jones\u2019 depicts realities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24362,1457,1456,6153,1453,1454],"class_list":["post-48078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-adam-domby","tag-newt-knight","tag-newton-knight","tag-the-post-and-courier","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48079,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48078\/revisions\/48079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}