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Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson
Linda Williams
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Frontmatter
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Illustrations (page ix)
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Preface (page xiii)
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Acknowledgments (page xvii)
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Introduction: Playing the Race Card (page 3)
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Chapter One: The American Melodramatic Mode (page 10)
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Chapter Two: "A Wonderful, 'Leaping' Fish": Varieties of Uncle Tom (page 45)
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Chapter Three: Anti-Tom and The Birth of a Nation (page 96)
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Chapter Four: Posing as Black, Passing as White: The Melos of Black and White Melodrama in the Jazz Age (page 136)
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Chapter Five: Rewriting the Plantation Legend: Scarlet "Totes a Weary Load" (page 187)
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Chapter Six: Home Sweet Africa: Alex Haley's and TV's Roots (page 220)
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Chapter Seven: Trials of Black and White: California v. Powell and The People v. Orenthal James Simpson (page 252)
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Conclusion: Our Melodramatic Racial Fix (page 296)
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Notes (page 311)
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Bibliography (page 369)
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Index (page 385)
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Published: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9780691201337 (ebook)
- 9780691058009 (hardcover)
- 9780691102832 (paper)