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Author Robinson, Cedric J.

Title Forgeries of Memory and Meaning : Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (454 pages)
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Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Inventions of the Negro; 2 In the Year 1915: D.W. Griffith and the Rewhitening of America; 3 Blackface Minstrelsy and Black Resistance; 4 Resistance and Imitation in Early Black Cinema; 5 The Racial Regimes of the "Golden Age"; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans. Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial beliefs and capitalism, beginning with Shakespearean England and the development of international trade. He demonstrates how the needs of American commerce determined the construction of successive r.
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.
Othello (Shakespeare, William)
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the performing arts.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Robinson, Cedric J. Forgeries of Memory and Meaning : Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2012 9780807858417
ISBN 9781469606750 (electronic book)
1469606755 (electronic book)