Migrating to the movies: cinema and black urban modernity

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Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction A Nigger in the Woodpile: Black (In)Visibility in Film History Part One: Onto the Screen Chapter 1. To Misrepresent a Helpless Race: The Black Image Problem Chapter 2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema Part Two: Into the Audience Chapter 3. Negroes Laughing at Themselves? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity Chapter 4. Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time: Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago Chapter 5. Along the Stroll: Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters Part Three: Behind the Camera Chapter 6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking Chapter 7 We Were Never Immigrants: Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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