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Representing Blackness

Valerie Smith

1997240 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1997
first published
  • 1997Rutgers University Press · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9780813523132
  • 1997Rutgers University Press · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780813523149
  • 2000Athlone Press · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780485300819

The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that disclosure, original essays on important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video.

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