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'Time of the Heathen': Postwar Life and Death, an American Tale

'Time of the Heathen': Postwar Life and Death, an American Tale
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Cicely Tyson: New Fans Use Race to Deny Her Artistry and Exceptionalism


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Her new fans use race to deny her artistry and exceptionalism.
The late Cicely Tyson is getting the Chadwick Boseman treatment. Mainstream media bow to her memory with overstated obits and one piddling night of two films on Turner Classic Movies. All this, pretending to respect the artistry of her 60-year-plus career, simply in order to make Tyson an exemplar of Black Lives Matter significance.
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Dark, lovely, and clearly intelligent, Tyson was certainly an extraordinary figure during the late 20th century, but like other black American performers who personified the social advances of that time, her reach into the millennium saw her achievements used as political fodder by media, politicians, and a new generation that was unaware of the qualities that defined Tyson’s exceptionalism. Tyson’s ageless beauty (she was nearly 50 when she made her breakthrough in ....

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