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Race and Ethnicity: Visual Resources

Visual Resources

DVDs available from the Visual Resources Centre in the library. 

 

 

Suggested Readings on Film & Race

Bogle, Donald. Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood (New York: Ballantine, 2005)

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (New York: Continuum, 1993)

Cripps, Thomas. "Walter's Thing": The NAACP's Hollywood Bureau of 1946—A Cautionary Tale,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 2005), pp. 30- 65

Diawara, Manthia, ed. Black American Cinema (New York and London: Routledge, 1993)

Grant, William R. Post-Soul Black Cinema: Discontinuities, Innovations, and Breakpoints, 1970–1995 (New York and London: Routledge, 2004)

Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993)

Smith, Valerie, ed. Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video (New Brunswick: NJ: Rutgers, 1997)

Snead, James. White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side (New York and London: Routledge, 1994)

Watts, Jill. Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (New York; HarperCollins, 2005)

 

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