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by: Cedric J. Robinson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43652996073
EAN: 9780807858417
ISBN: 0807858412
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 445
Publication Date: December 17, 2007
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Sales Rank: 456157
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early 'talkies' firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans. Robinson's analysis marks a new way of approaching the intellectual, political, and media racism present in the beginnings of American narrative cinema.
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Rating: - A Stupendous Effort
This is one of the best works of African-American film studies to come out in years. Many of us who have found the work of David Bogle (Toms, Mammies, Mulattoes, Bucks & Coons) wanting on several levels will have their prayers answered with Robinson's impeccable scholarship and far-reaching analysis of the changing perceptions and representations of African-Americans after the Civil War, Reconstruction and the release of Griffith's BIRTH OF A NATION (1915). What was important for me in reading ... Read More
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