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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
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Wallace, Michele. "Passing, Lynching and Jim Crow: A Genealogy of Race and Gender in U.S. Visual Culture, 1895-1929," Cinema Studies, New York University, January 1999.
The first half of this dissertation looks at general trends in race and gender representations in U.S. visual culture up to, and including, the innovation of cinema at the turn-of-the-century; the second half of the dissertation considers, in particular, the emergence of Afro-American, or black images in silent cinema (1895-1929) with a specific focus on race, gender, homoeroticism and (mostly hetero) sexuality. Considered in more exhaustive detail are the various film versions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates.
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