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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (454 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469606750
  • 1469606755
  • 9780807831489
  • 0807831484
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forgeries of Memory and Meaning : Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II.DDC classification:
  • 791.43652996073
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N4 .R58 2012
Online resources:
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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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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-403) and index.

English.

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