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Playing the race card melodramas of Black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson
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Title
Playing the race card [electronic resource] : melodramas of Black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson / Linda Williams.
ISBN
069110283X
0691058008
9780691102832
Published
Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 401 p.) : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm.
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Published by Princeton University Press.
Third printing, and first paperback printing, 2002.
This book has been composed in Electra LH Twelve and Futura Condensed typefaces.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Books / Online
Language
English
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August 28, 2020
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Contents
The American Melodramatic Mode
“A Wonderful, ‘Leaping’ Fishâ€: Varieties of Uncle Tom
Anti-Tom and The Birth of a Nation
Posing as Black, Passing as White: The Melos of Black and White Melodrama in the Jazz Age
Rewriting the Plantation Legend: Scarlett “Totes a Weary Loadâ€
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.
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