Thinking Through Cinema

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rocchio, Vincent K.
Reel racism: confronting hollywood's construction of Afro-
American culture/ Vincent K. Rocchio.
p.cm. -- (Thinking through cinema)
Includes biblographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-6710-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Afro-Americans in motion pictures. I. title. II. Series.

PN19995.9.N4 R59 2000
791.43'6520396073 -- dc21 00-043984

The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the
American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed
Library Materials Z39.48-1984.

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