books

There are some books on my mind concerning this project. One Lisa and I already discussed. It is Bill Belleville's Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape. I think some of the themes we have discussed are addressed here, however with a different focus and geography. And the other is Eugene Robinson's Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America. I heard Robinson on the radio yesterday interviewed about this book. I really think he is off the mark on it and has rose colored glasses. I think he is trying to come to terms with what we want to do with this film, but is trapped in a conventional wisdom about what "black" was or is. I must say I have not read these books yet, but maybe we should take a look and see if they might inform us during this production.