Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films

Completely 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 Nationthe groundbreaking work of independent filmmaker Oscar Micheauxand 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 changedand the shocking ways in which it has remained the same.