Playing the race card
melodramas of black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson
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Publication
2001 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
100,250 words, Guess
Page Count
401 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveplayingracecardm00will
- Internet Archiveplayingracecardm0000will
- ISBN-100691058008
- ISBN-139780691058009
- LibraryThing36035
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- Goodreads904655
- Library of Congress Control Number00058467
- OCLC Control Number44586476
- Better World Books9780691058009
- Open LibraryOL6792788M
Classifications
- DDC305.8
- LCCE185.625 .W523 2001
- LCCE185.625.W523 2001
and 2 more
- LCCP94.5 .M552 U67 2001
- LCCE 185.625 W523 2001
Description
"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. Williams, the author of Hard Core, explores how these images took root, beginning with melodramatic theater, where suffering characters acquire virtue through victimization."--BOOK JACKET.
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