Playing the race card : melodramas of black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson / Linda Williams.
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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.Description: xviii, 401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN: - 0691058008 (alk. paper)
- 9780691058009 (alk. paper)
- 069110283X
- 9780691102832
- 9780691058009
- 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 -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Ethnic studies
- Social discrimination & equal treatment
- Cultural studies
- Regional studies
- Film history, theory & criticism
- United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects
- 305.8
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| General Lending | Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending | 305.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 61736 |
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.
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