Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life

Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of ea...

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Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942

Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishmen...

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Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II tothe Civil Rights Era

This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World Wa...

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The Flip Wilson Show (TV Milestones Series)

When The Flip Wilson Show debuted on NBC in 1970, the major legislative victories of the civil rights movement had been won, but the broad...

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Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to theRise of Blaxploitation

The sixties were a tremendously important time of transition for both civil rights activism and the U.S. film industry. Soul Searching ex...

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Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle

Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from sla...

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Black Entertainers in African American Newspaper Articles

For the first half of the twentieth century, the best coverage of blacks in entertainment--especially the developing motion picture indust...

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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of AmericanPopular Culture, 1890-1930

This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in vario...

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The Life of Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson, born 1898, was a two-time All-American football player and a law-school graduate in an era that offered few opportunities for ...

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Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture

Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture goes beyond reflection theories of the media to examine cin...

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"Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films

This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masc...

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Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester

Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended his long life, "Sambo" prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and co...

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Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe

Black Television Travels explores the globalization of African American television and the way in which foreign markets, programming strat...

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Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry

In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era...

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Becoming Richard Pryor

A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy. Richard Pryor may have been the most un...

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Spike Lee: Finding the Story and Forcing the Issue

This insightful study probes the iconic filmmaker's career as a director and shaper of American culture. It not only sheds light on th...

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Spike Lee's America

Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and richl...

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Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound

In 1929 and 1930, during the Hollywood studios' conversion to synchronized-sound film production, white-controlled trade magazines and...

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Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance

In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a ...

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Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway

Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab C...

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