Playing the race card

By Linda Williams

Subjects: White Women, Noirs américains dans la culture populaire, Aspect psychologique, Hommes noirs américains, African Americans in mass media, Culture populaire, Social aspects of American melodrama, Massenmedien, Racisme dans la culture populaire, American Melodrama, Identité ethnique, Populaire cultuur, Melodrama, American, Médias et relations raciales, African Americans in popular culture, Films, African American men, Beeldvorming, Stereotypen, Noirs américains dans les médias, Geschichte 1853-1995, Geschichte, Rassenverhoudingen, Melodramatische films, Popular culture, united states, Popular culture, Race identity, Psychological aspects, Massenkultur, Racism in popular culture, New York Times reviewed, Mass media and race relations, Literatur, Women, White, Rassenbeziehung (Motiv), Drama, Relations raciales, Film, Weiße, Blanches, Psychological aspects of Popular culture, Social aspects, United states, race relations, Aspect social, Mélodrame américain, Race relations, Stereotyp, Ethnische Beziehungen, Schwarze

Description: "The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, and today they exert a powerful and disturbing influence on American's understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this inquisitive book, where she probes the bitterly divisive racial sentiments aroused by such recent events as O. J. Simpson's criminal trial. Williams, the author of Hard Core, explores how these images took root, beginning with melodramatic theater, where suffering characters acquire virtue through victimization."--BOOK JACKET.