The Making of America (2026)
The documentary film explores how Enlightenment-era systems of knowledge—art, science, architecture, and cartography—produced enduring frameworks for racial slavery, territorial extraction, and Indigenous dispossession in what became the United States of America. Quote from the Director, Monique Linder: “After our last film about Reconstruction Destructed, I felt it was important that the next film go back to the very beginning, the making of America. This film really helps tie all the pieces in the Juneteenth Reckoning with Slavery film series together in a significant way. I’m looking forward to sharing it with others.”
- Released
- 2026-06-28
- Runtime
- 18 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Monique Linder
Cast
- Leonard Peltier as Self (Artist/Activist)
- David Pullins as Self (NY Metropolitan Museum of Met Curator)
- Kevin Lindsey as Self (MN Humanities Center CEO)
- Roger Cummings as Self (Juxtaposition CEO)
- Joseph Ra Cole as Self (OMG Studios Innovation Lab)
- Dr. Duchess Harris as Self (American Studies Professor)
- Chase Iron Eyes as Self (Director, Sacred Defense Fund/Lakota People's Law Project)
- Wasu Duta as Self (Headman of the Bdewakanton (Mdewakanton) Santee Dakota Sioux)
- Patrice Epps as Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
- Kanandi Mac as Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
- Shah Hasan, Jr. as Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
- Kiara Richardson as Self (Juxtaposition Apprentice)
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