Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-384) and index.
Contents
The American melodramatic mode -- "A wonderful, 'leaping' fish": varieties of Uncle Tom -- Anti-Tom and The birth of a nation -- Posing as black, passing as white: the melow of black and white melodrama in the Jazz age -- Rewriting the plantation legend: Scarlett "totes a weary load" -- Home sweet Africa: Alex Haley's and TV's roots -- Trials of black and white: California v. Powell and The people v. Orenthal James Simpson -- Our melodramatic racial fix.
