The founding Hollywood movie, Birth of a Nation, celebrated the Ku Klux Klan. The first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, was a blackface film. Gone With the Wind remains the all-time box-office success. From their beginnings, Michael Rogin claims, motion pictures created a nati…
The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of this text. It explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to various broader issues.
The founding Hollywood movie, Birth of a Nation, celebrated the Ku Klux Klan. The first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, was a blackface film. Gone With the Wind remains the all-time box-office success. From their beginnings, Michael Rogin claims, motion pictures created a nati…
The founding Hollywood movie, Birth of a Nation, celebrated the Ku Klux Klan. The first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, was a blackface film. Gone With the Wind remains the all-time box-office success. From their beginnings, Michael Rogin claims, motion pictures created a nati…
Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism.
Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism.
This book establishes the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century comedian Bert Williams as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem's Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Willi…
"Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century"--
"Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century"--
"Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century"--.
"Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century"--
Why Write This Book? -- Megyn Kelly, Justin Trudeau, or [fill in another public figure's name] -- What is Blackface? -- Why Does Blackface Exist? Because of Uppity Negros, of Course! -- What is the Legacy of Blackface? The Impact on White Actors -- What is the Legacy of Blackfac…
"Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century"--