Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson by Linda Williams

Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson

Linda Williams

408 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

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The racial sympathies and hostilities that surfaced during the trial of the police in the beating of Rodney King and in the O. J. Simpson murder trial are grounded in the melodramatic forms of Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Birth of a Nation. Williams...

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