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Author Turner, Patricia A. (Patricia Ann), 1955-

Title Ceramic uncles & celluloid mammies : black images and their influence on culture / Patricia A. Turner
Edition First University of Virginia Press edition
Published Charlottesville [Va.] : University of Virginia Press, 2002

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Description xvi, 238 : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- -- -- Part I. Insidious Iconography -- -- Chapter 1. Contemptible Collectibles -- Chapter 2. Alligator Bait -- Chapter 3. Back to the Kitchen -- -- -- Part II. Blemished Depictions -- -- Chapter 4. The Troping of Uncle Tom -- Chapter 5. Jacksonalia -- Chapter 6. Everything Is Not Satisfactual -- Chapter 7. In Search of the Young, Gifted, and Black -- Chapter 8. Ethnic Aliens -- Chapter 9. Distorted Soundtracks -- Chapter 10. From Real Blacks to Reel Blacks -- Chapter 11. Of Primates, Porters, and Potables: -- Images of Africa on Screen -- Chapter 12. From Homer to Hoke: A Small Step for African- -- American Mankind -- Notes -- Index
Notes Originally published: New York : Anchor Books, 1994
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [220]-229) and index
Subject African Americans in mass media.
Mass media and culture -- United States -- History.
LC no. 2002074248
ISBN 0813921554 alkaline paper
Other Titles Ceramic uncles and celluloid mammies