Playing the race card : melodramas of black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson /
Williams, Linda, 1946-
Playing the race card : melodramas of black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson / Linda Williams. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001. - xviii, 401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbk.
CW027
Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-384) and index.
The American melodramatic mode -- "A wonderful, 'leaping' fish": varieties of Uncle Tom -- Anti-Tom and The birth of a nation -- Posing as black, passing as white: the melow of black and white melodrama in the Jazz age -- Rewriting the plantation legend: Scarlett "totes a weary load" -- Home sweet Africa: Alex Haley's and TV's roots -- Trials of black and white: California v. Powell and The people v. Orenthal James Simpson -- Our melodramatic racial fix.
0691058008 (alk. paper) 9780691058009 (alk. paper) 069110283X 9780691102832 9780691058009
00058467
African Americans in popular culture.
Racism in popular culture--United States
Melodrama, American--Social aspects
Mass media and race relations--United States
African Americans in mass media.
African American men--Race identity
Women, White--Race identity--United States
Popular culture--Psychological aspects--United States
Ethnic studies
Social discrimination & equal treatment
Cultural studies
Regional studies
Film history, theory & criticism
United States--Race relations--Psychological aspects.
305.8
Playing the race card : melodramas of black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson / Linda Williams. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001. - xviii, 401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbk.
CW027
Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-384) and index.
The American melodramatic mode -- "A wonderful, 'leaping' fish": varieties of Uncle Tom -- Anti-Tom and The birth of a nation -- Posing as black, passing as white: the melow of black and white melodrama in the Jazz age -- Rewriting the plantation legend: Scarlett "totes a weary load" -- Home sweet Africa: Alex Haley's and TV's roots -- Trials of black and white: California v. Powell and The people v. Orenthal James Simpson -- Our melodramatic racial fix.
0691058008 (alk. paper) 9780691058009 (alk. paper) 069110283X 9780691102832 9780691058009
00058467
African Americans in popular culture.
Racism in popular culture--United States
Melodrama, American--Social aspects
Mass media and race relations--United States
African Americans in mass media.
African American men--Race identity
Women, White--Race identity--United States
Popular culture--Psychological aspects--United States
Ethnic studies
Social discrimination & equal treatment
Cultural studies
Regional studies
Film history, theory & criticism
United States--Race relations--Psychological aspects.
305.8