Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, & bucks : an interpretive history of Blacks in American films
In this classic study of Black images in American motion pictures, Donald Bogle presents historical and social reflections on the complex relationship between African Americans and Hollywood. From The Birth of a Nation, the 1934 Imitation of Life, Gone with the Wind, and Carmen Jones to Shaft, Do the Right Thing, and Boyz N the Hood, the author interrogates questions of diversity in the film industry and reveals how images of Black Americans in the movies have significantly changed over the course of the 20th century--as well as the shocking ways in which those images have often remained the same. (Adapted from publisher's summary of a later edition.)
Print Book, English, 2003
Continuum, New York, 2003