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Black Male Frames - African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 (Paperback)
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Black Male Frames - African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 (Paperback)
Series: Television and Popular Culture
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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 to historical
figures such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Williams
argues that these two extremes persist today in modern Hollywood,
where actors such as Sam Lucas, Paul Robeson, Sidney Poitier,
Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman, among others, must cope with
and work around such limited options. Williams situates these
actors' performances of one or the other stereotype within each
man's personal history and within the country's historical moment,
ultimately to argue that these men are rewarded for their portrayal
of the stereotypes most needed to put America's ongoing racial
anxieties at ease. Reinvigorating the discussion that began with
Donald Bogle's seminal work, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and
Bucks, Black Male Frames illuminates the ways in which individuals
and the media respond to the changing racial politics in America.
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