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050 00 $aE185.625$b.W523 2001
100 1 $aWilliams, Linda,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80162073
245 10 $aPlaying the race card :$bmelodramas of Black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson /$cLinda Williams.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axviii, 401 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [369]-384) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Playing the Race Card --$gCh. 1.$tThe American Melodramatic Mode --$gCh. 2.$t"A Wonderful, 'Leaping' Fish": Varieties of Uncle Tom --$gCh. 3.$tAnti-Tom and The British of a Nation --$gCh. 4.$tPosing as Black, Passing as White: The Melos of Black and White Melodrama in the Jazz Age --$gCh. 5.$tRewriting the Plantation Legend: Scarlett "Totes a Weary Load" --$gCh. 6.$tHome Sweet Africa: Alex Haley's and TV's Roots --$gCh. 7.$tTrials of Black and White: California v. Powell and The People v. Orenthal James Simpson --$tConclusion: Our Melodramatic Racial Fix.
520 1 $a"The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, and today they exert a powerful and disturbing influence on American's understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this inquisitive book, where she probes the bitterly divisive racial sentiments aroused by such recent events as O. J. Simpson's criminal trial.
520 8 $aWilliams, the author of Hard Core, explores how these images took root, beginning with melodramatic theater, where suffering characters acquire virtue through victimization."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in popular culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003035
650 0 $aRacism in popular culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMelodrama, American$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aMass media and race relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010100848
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in mass media.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89003661
650 0 $aAfrican American men$xRace identity.
650 0 $aWomen, White$xRace identity$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xPsychological aspects.
852 00 $bleh$hE185.625$i.W523 2001
852 00 $bbar$hE185.625$i.W523 2001