The encyclopedia of racism in American films / edited by Salvador Jimenez Murguia.

From D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for more than a century. Whether subtle or blatant, racially biased images and narratives erase minorities, perpetuate stereotypes, and keep alive practices o...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:National cinemas series.
Other Authors: Jiménez Murguía, Salvador (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Series:National cinemas series.
Subjects:
Minorities in motion pictures > Encyclopedias.
Racism in motion pictures > Encyclopedias.
Motion pictures > United States > Encyclopedias.
Minorités au cinéma > Encyclopédies.
Racisme au cinéma > Encyclopédies.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Encyclopédies.
24.32 history of film art.
Minorities in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Racism in motion pictures.
United States.
Bibel > Philemonbrief.
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld.
Minderheit > Motiv.
Rassismus > Motiv.
Rassismus.
Encyclopedia.
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Encyclopedia.
Physical Description:xviii, 805 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn films
  • The air up there
  • Aladdin
  • Ali
  • All the invisible children
  • American history X
  • American me
  • American sniper
  • Amistad
  • Apocalypse now
  • The aristocats
  • Avatar
  • Babel
  • Bad Santa
  • Bamboozled
  • The believers
  • Beloved
  • A better life
  • Big trouble in little China
  • Bird
  • The birth of a nation
  • Black Hawk down
  • Black like me
  • Blazing saddles
  • The blind side
  • Blood diamond
  • Blood in, blood out
  • Borat
  • Born in the East L.A.
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • Boyz n the hood
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Broken blossoms
  • The Bronze Buckaroo
  • Bulworth
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
  • Cadillac Records
  • Carlito's Way
  • Charlie and the chocolate factory films
  • Charlie's Angels
  • The cheat
  • A Christmas story
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Coffy
  • The color purple
  • Colors
  • Come see the paradise
  • Crash
  • Crazy/beautiful
  • The crimson kimono
  • Crossfire
  • Dangerous minds
  • Daughter of the dragon
  • Daughters of the dust
  • A day without a Mexican
  • Dear white people
  • The defiant ones
  • The departed
  • Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
  • Django unchained
  • Do the right thing
  • Dope
  • Dreamgirls
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • Drop squad
  • Drum
  • Dumbo
  • El norte
  • Empire of the sun
  • Eve's Bayou
  • The express
  • Falling down
  • Fantasia
  • Far from heaven
  • Farewell to Manzanar
  • Finding Forrester
  • Flags of our fathers
  • Forrest Gump
  • Fresh
  • Fruitvale Station
  • Gangs of New York
  • Get out
  • Ghost dog: the way of the Samurai
  • Ghost in the shell
  • Ghosts of Mississippi
  • Giant
  • The girl from Mexico
  • Glory
  • The Godfather films
  • Gone with the wind
  • The Goonies
  • Gran Torino
  • The great debaters
  • The green mile
  • Gremlins
  • Guess Who
  • Guess who's coming to dinner
  • Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
  • Hart's War
  • Havana Rose
  • Hidden figures
  • Higher learning
  • Hollywood shuffle
  • Home of the brave
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • The Hurricane
  • Imitation of life (1934)
  • Imitation of life (1959)
  • In the heat of the night
  • In the land of blood and honey
  • Indiana Jones films
  • Inside man
  • Intolerance
  • The intruder
  • Jackie Brown
  • Japanese war bride
  • Jungle fever
  • Jungle 2 jungle
  • The Karate Kid films
  • La Bamba
  • Lady and the Tramp
  • Lady sings the blues
  • Lakeview Terrace
  • The landlord
  • The last samurai
  • Lean on me
  • Lee Daniels' The Butler
  • Liberty heights
  • The lion king
  • The littlest rebel
  • The lone ranger
  • The long walk home
  • Losing Isaiah
  • Lost boundaries
  • Love field
  • Loving
  • Lucy
  • The magnificent seven
  • Maid in Manhattan
  • Malcolm X
  • Mandingo
  • Marathon Man
  • Marked for Death
  • The mask of Fu Manchu
  • The master gunfighter
  • Me, myself & Irene
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Menace II society
  • The Mexican
  • Mi familia/My family
  • Mi vida loca/My crazy life
  • Middle of nowhere
  • Miracle at St. Anna
  • Mississippi Masala
  • The mist
  • Mo' better blues
  • Monster's ball
  • Moon over Parador
  • The mummy films
  • Nacho Libre
  • New Jack City
  • Night of the living dead
  • No way out
  • North
  • Nothing but a man
  • O
  • O brother, where art thou?
  • Only the brave
  • The Outsiders
  • The passion of the Christ
  • A patch of blue
  • Peter Pan
  • The Phenix City story
  • The pianist
  • Pinky
  • Pirates of the Caribbean films
  • Pitch perfect
  • Planet of the apes
  • Pocahontas
  • Precious
  • A raisin in the sun films
  • Ray
  • Real women have curves
  • Red tails
  • Remember the Titans
  • The revenant
  • Romeo must die
  • Rosewood
  • Sankofa
  • Save the last dance
  • Sayonara
  • Scarface
  • Schindler's list
  • School daze
  • School ties
  • The searchers
  • Secondhand lions
  • The secret life of bees
  • Selena
  • Selma
  • Sergeant Rutledge
  • The serpent and the rainbow
  • Seven years in Tibet
  • Shaft films
  • Shanghai Express
  • The Shawshank redemption
  • The sheik
  • Show boat films
  • The siege
  • Smoke signals
  • Snow falling on cedars
  • A soldier's story
  • Something new
  • The son of the sheik
  • Song of the south
  • Soul man
  • Sounder
  • Stand and deliver
  • Star Wars trilogy
  • Stonewall
  • Sweet home Alabama
  • Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song
  • Tarzan films
  • ¡Three amigos!
  • 3 ninjas
  • A time to kill
  • To kill a mockingbird
  • To sir, with love
  • Touch of evil
  • The toy
  • Training day
  • The treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • 12 angry men
  • 12 years a slave
  • Two mules for Sister Sara
  • Uncle Tom's cabin films
  • The unholy three
  • V for vendetta
  • The watermelon woman
  • West side story
  • White dog
  • White man's burden
  • The wild bunch
  • Windtalkers
  • Within our gates
  • The wizard of Oz
  • You don't mess with the Zohan
  • You only live twice
  • Zebrahead
  • Appendix A. Themes
  • Appendix B. Profiles.