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Author Williams, Linda, 1946-

Title Playing the race card [electronic resource] : melodramas of Black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson / Linda Williams.

Imprint Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2001.

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Description xviii, 401 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note Published by Princeton University Press.
Third printing, and first paperback printing, 2002.
This book has been composed in Electra LH Twelve and Futura Condensed typefaces.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Contents 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 Melos 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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Subject Afro-Americans in popular culture.
Racism in popular culture -- United States.
Melodrama, American -- Social aspects.
Mass media and race relations -- United States.
Afro-Americans in mass media.
Afro-American men -- Race identity.
White women -- United States -- Race identity.
United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects.
Popular culture -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Film & Media Studies.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 069110283X Paperback
0691058008 alk. paper
9780691102832
Standard No. 2027/heb08218 hdl

 
    
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