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Name: Representing Blackness
Author: Valerie Smith

📘 Representing Blackness by Valerie Smith

The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that disclosure, original essays on important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video.

First publish date: April 1997

Authors: Valerie Smith

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