ion and film started to see a wave of new black talent coming forward (and where hip hop and soul/R’n’B seriously challenged “white” rock and pop as the dominant musical style) Lee’s film with its invoking of age-old anti-black stereotypes is a reminder of an African-American sense that, for all the remarkable change occurring in the past century, that sense of persecution and demonisation of the kind seen in The Birth of a Nation that still lurks not too far from…ge of racist on-screen caricatures of black people from his bitterly satirical feature, Bamboozled. Like his student feature, The Answer, Bamboozled is about an African American filmmaker who attempts to skewer historical stereotypes of black people, but inadvertently ends up selling his soul and ends up continuing a lineage of dehumanising stereotypes. Released 85 years after The Birth of a Nation, in a time where American television and film started to see a wave of new black talent coming forward (and where hip hop and soul/R’n’B seriously challenged “white” rock and pop as the dominant musical style) Lee’s film with its invoking of age-old anti-black stereotypes is a reminder of an African-American sense that, for all the remarkable change occurring in the past century, that sense of persecution and demonisation of the kind seen in The Birth of a Nation that still lurks not too far from the surface.