Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Fourth EditionCompletely updated to include the entire twentieth century, this new fourth edition covers all the latest directors, stars, and films including Summer of Sam, Jackie Brown, The Best Man, and The Hurricane. From The Birth of a Nation--the groundbreaking work of independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux--and Gone with the Wind to the latest work by Spike Lee, John Singleton, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry and Will Smith, Donald Bogle reveals the ways in which the depiction of blacks in American movies has changed--and the shocking ways in which it has remained the same. |
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Read the original 1973 version some time in the 1990s. It is highly informative in tracing out a panorama of how African Americans have been portrayed on film, been treated by the movie establishment of the United States and how some have moved from in front of the camera into various roles behind it since the last decade of the 1800s. This book is yet another parallel that portrays the eternal spirit of black people that enables us to endure oppression of all sorts and depths in the firm belief that we can only grow, develop and evolve through the political, economic and social jungle created (in the US and around the worlds) by white people who are slowly but surely failing at keeping us in the inferior position. --Yirenkyi Lamptey (Accra.)