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Author Williams, Linda, 1946-

Title Playing the race card : melodramas of black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson / Linda Williams.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]
©2001
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 Moore Stacks  E185.625 .W523 2001    Available  ---
Description xviii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-384) 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 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.
Subject African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans in popular culture.
Racism in popular culture -- United States.
Racism in popular culture.
United States.
Melodrama, American -- Social aspects.
Melodrama, American.
Social aspects.
Mass media and race relations -- United States.
Mass media and race relations.
African Americans in mass media.
African Americans in mass media.
African American men -- Race identity.
African American men -- Race identity.
African American men.
Women, White -- Race identity -- United States.
Women, White.
United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects.
Race relations.
Psychological aspects.
Popular culture -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Popular culture.
ISBN 0691058008 alkaline paper
9780691058009 alkaline paper
069110283X
9780691102832

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