Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
 
 
Robinson explores an impressive variety of important films, sustaining his discussion with fresh, insightful angles on the political economy of each film. This book makes a significant contribution to several interwoven, discursive currents involving race and representation, social Darwinism and scientific racism, minstrelsy and modernism, the plantation and the jungle, and black cultural and political resistance to several 'racial regimes' working themselves out in politics, media, and the cinema in America.--Ed Guerrero, New York University