How a Village Beat White Supremacy—Lessons from "Bacurau" with The Micheaux Mission

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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If you loved Sinners, you'll wanna tune in. This week on Black History Year, we're asking, "What happens when a whole town decides the map no longer defines them--and then proves it?" On this special crossover episode with the film-fanatics at The Micheaux Mission, host Darren is cracking open the must-see Afro-Brazilian thriller "Bacurau" (2019). Part Western, part sci-fi, part anti-colonial manifesto (YES, that), they explore how collective audacity can turn survival into revolution--and why this genre-busting film might be a blueprint to getting real, trill freedom. Be sure to find Len Webb and Vincent Williams of The Micheaux Mission at https://www.micheauxmission.com/. New episodes of their podcast go LIVE every Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET. You can also find it on YouTube @micheauxmission. — This podcast is brought to you by PushBlack, the nation’s largest non-profit Black media company. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com. Most folks do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but truly, anything helps. Thanks for supporting the work.With production support from Leslie Taylor-Grover and Brooke Brown, Black History Year is produced by Cydney Smith, Darren Wallace, and Len Webb, who also edits the show. Lilly Workneh is our Executive Producer and Black History Year's host is Darren Wallace. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	I don't know if this came up for y'all while watching it, but just like the black history of Brazil,
0:34.4	I just appreciate just being able to watch a different vision of what life could be.
0:50.8	Sen. Sins has us talking about everything from blues music to hoodoo.
0:58.9	So here's some free historical game about another film experience to add to your watch list.
1:05.9	I'm Darren from Push Black, and on this special crossover episode of Black History Year,
1:10.9	we're talking about one of the most powerful films you've likely never seen with our friends at the Michelle Mission podcast.
1:19.4	The film, Baccaro, an incendiary Afro-Brazilian masterpiece that's as much a manifesto
1:26.6	as it is a movie.
1:28.3	Set in the wilderness of Brazil, Baccaratau isn't just a genre-reblending thriller.
1:33.3	It's a modern-day allegory of black maroonage.
1:36.3	This fictional village, vanishing from maps and defined colonial logic,
1:40.3	mirrors the Columbo's of Black history,
1:42.3	those communities forged by fugitive and slave Africans
1:45.5	who build autonomy in the face of brutality. But Bacadale isn't stuck in the past. With its
1:52.2	psychedelic pills and flying saucer drones, it reimagines liberation through a defiantly decolonial
1:57.6	lens, asking, what does it mean to fight back when the enemy is both
2:01.9	foreign and familiar?
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