This assessment of black film history distinguishes between American films that are controlled by Blacks and those which utilize black talent, but are controlle

Growing up, they didn't believe they had a future. Together, they are building forever. Alexis Black persevered through her mother's death and her father's impr

Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around t

In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the

A challenge to Hollywood's one-dimensional images of African Americans.