Images+of+Black+Americans

=Images of Black Americans: Professor Gray =



This guide is designed to help you research archetypes, racial stereotypes, positive images of African Americans in film, marketing, and marketing plans. It includes a list of scholarly and popular sources that can be used. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck!
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Good Search Terms to use
 * Archetypes/Racial Archetypes
 * Stereotypes/Racial Stereotypes
 * Birth of a Nation
 * African Americans
 * African Americans in Film
 * Marketing
 * Marketing Plans

=Books =

The [|on-line catalog] provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest.

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia: PN1995.9.N4 C625 2010

Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America: E185.86 .M397 2007

Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema: PN1995.9.N4 L46 2006

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema: PN1995.9.N4M28 2003

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film: PN1995.9.N4 M33 2003

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: E185.615.L675 2002

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson: E185.625 .W523 2001

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films: Reference PN1995.9 .N4 B6 1994

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Black American Cinema: PN1995.9 .N4 B45 1993 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Redefining Black Film: PN1995.9 .N4 R45 1993 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Black Popular Culture: E185.86 .B532 1992

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Electronic Books =

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The library has over 20,000 online books from the vendor [|Ebrary.]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|New-Brutality Film : Race and Affect in Contemporary American Film]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Marketing Manifesto]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Marketing to Moviegoers : A Handbook of Strategies and Tactics (3rd Edition)]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Marketing Plan : How to Prepare and Implement It (3rd Edition)]

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Videos =

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Birth of a Nation and the Civil War films of D.W. Griffith: PN1997.A1 B56 2002 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema: PN1995.9 .N4 2002

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Articles =

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Access millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Academic Search Premier]. Includes thousands of articles about race in cinema, Birth of a Nation, racial stereotypes

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|The African-American Experience]. Includes introductory articles about African-Americans in film, racial stereotypes in film, and The Birth of a Nation

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Issues and Controversies]. Includes a detailed essay on Race and Ethnicity in Entertainment

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Pop Culture Universe.] Includes an article about African American Stereotypes in Film

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Streaming Videos =

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">RCC students and faculty have access to full length videos from [|Films On Demand.]

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Color Adjustment]: This award-winning documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs takes a close look at how network television absorbed deep-seated racial conflict and transformed it into the nonthreatening offerings of 20th-century prime-time TV. Narrated by Ruby Dee, the film examines popular programs such as Amos ‘n’ Andy, I Spy, Julia, Good Times, Roots, and The Cosby Show, weaving clips from the shows with news coverage of the civil rights movement. Esther Rolle, Diahann Carroll, Tim Reid and other black performers discuss the impact their acting roles had in shaping race relations. With Norman Lear (All in the Family, The Jeffersons), David Wolper (Roots), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and others. (88 minutes) ======

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Ethnic Notions]: This Emmy Award–winning documentary reveals the origins of the dehumanizing African-American stereotypes found in popular culture, from the antebellum period to the era of the civil rights movement. Loyal Uncle Toms, carefree sambos, faithful mammies, grinning fools, savage brutes, and wide-eyed “pickaninnies” roll across the screen in cartoons, feature films, popular songs, minstrel shows, advertisements, folklore, household artifacts, and even children’s rhymes. Narrated by Esther Rolle and with scholarly commentary throughout, the film is a direct challenge to those who say “It’s just a joke.” (56 minutes)

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Racial Stereotypes in the Media]: Although demeaning and offensive racial stereotypes were pervasive in popular media of every kind during the 20th century, most observers would agree that the media is much more sensitive to representations of race today. But the pernicious effects of that stereotyping live on in the new racism arising from disparities in the treatment of stories involving whites and people of color in a ratings-driven news market, media-enhanced isolationism as a result of narrowcasting, and other sources. This program examines the relationship between mass media and social constructions of race from political and economic perspectives while looking at the effects media can have on audiences. A Films for the Humanities & Sciences Production. (42 minutes) ======

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed?]:“Significant.” “Moving.” “Devastating.” These are words that were used to describe this news report on African-American history when it aired in July of 1968. In fact, this program was so highly acclaimed that CBS NEWS rebroadcast it, again in prime time, only three weeks later. Featured segments spotlight the changing image of black Americans through film and TV clips ranging from The Birth of a Nation, to Amos ’n’ Andy, to Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; Freedom Day School in Philadelphia, where African-American children were taught about their heritage and racial identity; and some of America’s less familiar black heroes, including Daniel Hale Williams, the first doctor to perform open heart surgery in America. A young Bill Cosby hosts. Produced by CBS NEWS. (55 minutes) ======

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Web sites =

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Forbes.com: Marketing Plan Template: Exactly What To Include]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Duke University Exhibit - From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Representations of African Americans in Film]

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Citing Sources: Style Guides =

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Laguardia Community College Library MLA and APA citation style] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|The Owl at Purdue: MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide]

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Basic Research Help =


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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Research guide prepared on March 31, 2014 by Autumn Haag: ahaag@rcc.mass.edu