Cripps's Slow to Fade To Black: The Negro In American Film, 1900-1942, is considered the basic work on blacks' involvement in film, both in Hollywood and outsid

This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World War II through the civil righ

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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of Africa

Traces the history of black men in America using a tough-guy image to obscure their anger and disappointment over their roles in society back to their origins i