The encyclopedia of racism in American films /
From D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for more than a century. Whether subtle or blatant, racially biased images and narratives erase minorities, perpetuate stereotypes, and keep alive practi...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2018]
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| Series: | National cinemas series
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Table of Contents:
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn films
- The air up there
- Aladdin
- Ali
- All the invisible children
- American history X
- American me
- American sniper
- Amistad
- Apocalypse now
- The aristocats
- Avatar
- Babel
- Bad Santa
- Bamboozled
- The believers
- Beloved
- A better life
- Big trouble in little China
- Bird
- The birth of a nation
- Black Hawk down
- Black like me
- Blazing saddles
- The blind side
- Blood diamond
- Blood in, blood out
- Borat
- Born in the East L.A.
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Boyz n the hood
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Broken blossoms
- The Bronze Buckaroo
- Bulworth
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
- Cadillac Records
- Carlito's Way
- Charlie and the chocolate factory films
- Charlie's Angels
- The cheat
- A Christmas story
- Cloud Atlas
- Coffy
- The color purple
- Colors
- Come see the paradise
- Crash
- Crazy/beautiful
- The crimson kimono
- Crossfire
- Dangerous minds
- Daughter of the dragon
- Daughters of the dust
- A day without a Mexican
- Dear white people
- The defiant ones
- The departed
- Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Django unchained
- Do the right thing
- Dope
- Dreamgirls
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Drop squad
- Drum
- Dumbo
- El norte
- Empire of the sun
- Eve's Bayou
- The express
- Falling down
- Fantasia
- Far from heaven
- Farewell to Manzanar
- Finding Forrester
- Flags of our fathers
- Forrest Gump
- Fresh
- Fruitvale Station
- Gangs of New York
- Get out
- Ghost dog: the way of the Samurai
- Ghost in the shell
- Ghosts of Mississippi
- Giant
- The girl from Mexico
- Glory
- The Godfather films
- Gone with the wind
- The Goonies
- Gran Torino
- The great debaters
- The green mile
- Gremlins
- Guess Who
- Guess who's coming to dinner
- Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
- Hart's War
- Havana Rose
- Hidden figures
- Higher learning
- Hollywood shuffle
- Home of the brave
- Hotel Rwanda
- The Hurricane
- Imitation of life (1934)
- Imitation of life (1959)
- In the heat of the night
- In the land of blood and honey
- Indiana Jones films
- Inside man
- Intolerance
- The intruder
- Jackie Brown
- Japanese war bride
- Jungle fever
- Jungle 2 jungle
- The Karate Kid films
- La Bamba
- Lady and the Tramp
- Lady sings the blues
- Lakeview Terrace
- The landlord
- The last samurai
- Lean on me
- Lee Daniels' The Butler
- Liberty heights
- The lion king
- The littlest rebel
- The lone ranger
- The long walk home
- Losing Isaiah
- Lost boundaries
- Love field
- Loving
- Lucy
- The magnificent seven
- Maid in Manhattan
- Malcolm X
- Mandingo
- Marathon Man
- Marked for Death
- The mask of Fu Manchu
- The master gunfighter
- Me, myself & Irene
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Menace II society
- The Mexican
- Mi familia/My family
- Mi vida loca/My crazy life
- Middle of nowhere
- Miracle at St. Anna
- Mississippi Masala
- The mist
- Mo' better blues
- Monster's ball
- Moon over Parador
- The mummy films
- Nacho Libre
- New Jack City
- Night of the living dead
- No way out
- North
- Nothing but a man
- O
- O brother, where art thou?
- Only the brave
- The Outsiders
- The passion of the Christ
- A patch of blue
- Peter Pan
- The Phenix City story
- The pianist
- Pinky
- Pirates of the Caribbean films
- Pitch perfect
- Planet of the apes
- Pocahontas
- Precious
- A raisin in the sun films
- Ray
- Real women have curves
- Red tails
- Remember the Titans
- The revenant
- Romeo must die
- Rosewood
- Sankofa
- Save the last dance
- Sayonara
- Scarface
- Schindler's list
- School daze
- School ties
- The searchers
- Secondhand lions
- The secret life of bees
- Selena
- Selma
- Sergeant Rutledge
- The serpent and the rainbow
- Seven years in Tibet
- Shaft films
- Shanghai Express
- The Shawshank redemption
- The sheik
- Show boat films
- The siege
- Smoke signals
- Snow falling on cedars
- A soldier's story
- Something new
- The son of the sheik
- Song of the south
- Soul man
- Sounder
- Stand and deliver
- Star Wars trilogy
- Stonewall
- Sweet home Alabama
- Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song
- Tarzan films
- ¡Three amigos!
- 3 ninjas
- A time to kill
- To kill a mockingbird
- To sir, with love
- Touch of evil
- The toy
- Training day
- The treasure of the Sierra Madre
- 12 angry men
- 12 years a slave
- Two mules for Sister Sara
- Uncle Tom's cabin films
- The unholy three
- V for vendetta
- The watermelon woman
- West side story
- White dog
- White man's burden
- The wild bunch
- Windtalkers
- Within our gates
- The wizard of Oz
- You don't mess with the Zohan
- You only live twice
- Zebrahead
- Appendix A. Themes
- Appendix B. Profiles.