Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003

(Part of the Television and Popular Culture Series)

by Roland Leander Williams Jr.

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Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy or to defer to their white masters. These figures recur in the stories America tells about its black men, from the fictional Jim Crow and Zip Coon...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0815633823

ISBN13:9780815633822

Release Date:January 2015

Publisher:Syracuse University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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