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Everything We Learned From Raoul Peck’s ‘Exterminate All The Brutes’ Documentary

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Exterminate All the Brutes, the new four-part series by Raoul Peck, is a must-watch, please-share essay film that takes audiences through some of the most horrific moments in civilization over the past half-millennium.

Narrated by Peck himself, Brutes follows I Am Not Your Negro, which focused on James Baldwin’s work, and distills how white supremacy, or, more specifically, whites’ presumption to supremacy was asserted with violence and justified with lies.Unlike his previous project, Peck’s thesis is scaffolded by the content of three texts mentioned throughout: Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes (which examines Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa), Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

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