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High on the Hog is back with Season 2!

drglam kindly mae sure I knew! WD and I had watched some movies for the last few weeks, and also a series about evolution and extinctions, but today we watched 2 episodes of HotH and had dumplings.

I really love this show. I keep learning things I didn't know about the resourcefulness and determination of Black Americans to survive and thrive, and how much of the US we built with this. I wish I could make at least one season required Junior Year AP US HIstory viewing.

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sovay

I keep learning things I didn't know about the resourcefulness and determination of Black Americans to survive and thrive, and how much of the US we built with this. I wish I could make at least one season required Junior Year AP US HIstory viewing.

I would love to hear some things you have learned from this show.

(I hadn't heard it had a second season, so, yay!)

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minoanmiss

Off the top of my head:

1) rice was domesticated separately in East Asia and in West Africa, and is as ancient and integral to African cuisines as it is to Asian.

2) many famous Southern recipes were created by enslaved cooks

3) the Harlem Renaissance got a lot of its economic underpinning from the Harlem speakeasies which flouted Prohibition

4) many examples of Black people building a little wealth and losing it to racist White people, and starting over again.

Impressions of the previous season: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/826210.html

This drawing was inspired by being reminded that Black captives braided seeds into their hair to plant in their new homes, pretty much the only way they could carry anything tangible with them:

https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/902948.html

I wonder what this season will inspire me to draw?

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sovay

1) rice was domesticated separately in East Asia and in West Africa, and is as ancient and integral to African cuisines as it is to Asian.

I knew it was integral to African cuisines; I did not know it had been separately domesticated. That is extremely neat and makes me want to know immediately about African rice cultivars.

3) the Harlem Renaissance got a lot of its economic underpinning from the Harlem speakeasies which flouted Prohibition

While this one falls into the category of "facts I did not know which make sense as soon as someone says them," also of which I approve. Mention of the Harlem Renaissance also reminds me, since I never linked it in all the stress, that some weeks ago I ran across this article on Claude McKay, whose rediscovered novels sound amazing.

I wonder what this season will inspire me to draw?

I look forward to finding out.

Thank you for sharing facts! My movie-watching ability has been significantly damaged lately and my TV-watching ability is low at the best of times.

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minoanmiss

Hey, thank you for giving me a chance to babble :D

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amaebi

Yee haw!

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minoanmiss

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acelightning73

Showing that to Junior High kids would be equivalent to taking them to Old Sturbridge Village or Plimoth Plantation - showing them how hard people had to work for the basic necessities of food, a roof over their heads, a bed, and clothing. But all the re-enactments I've heard of are mostly re-enacted by white people. Except for Townsends, (on YouTube) - they go out of their way to include the lives of "enslaved people" in their scenarios.

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magid

I think Michael Twitty is a re-enactor, along with the other things he does. Though I know 1 is not a trend.

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acelightning73

Townsends has had a number of re-enactors whose "character" is an enslaved person, largely because nobody else includes them. One was a woman with knowledge of period-authentic clothes, hair styles, and even cosmetics. Townsends really does their homework.

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princessofgeeks

It sounds wonderfully uplifting!

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flamingsword

I have similar feelings about how some parts of The Wire should be shown in high school civics courses.

Yay African rice! I wonder what the genetic diversity is like between it and Asian rice, if they’re able to be hybridized for Super Rice! Or if that’s what we already have, come to think of it.

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oracne

I am looking forward to watching this!

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minoanmiss

OMG so good, so hungrymaking. There have of course been enraging and saddening moments but so far I haven't cried and I'm pretty sure I had by 2 episodes into the first season. And the Harlem Renaissance bit just filled me with delight.