Migrating to the Movies

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is Associate Professor of English, Cinema & Media Studies, and African & African American Studies at the University of Chicago.

Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction A Nigger in the Woodpile: Black (In)Visibility in Film History Part One: Onto the Screen Chapter 1. "To Misrepresent a Helpless Race": The Black Image Problem Chapter 2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema Part Two: Into the Audience Chapter 3. "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity Chapter 4. "Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time": Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago Chapter 5. Along the "Stroll": Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters Part Three: Behind the Camera Chapter 6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking Chapter 7 "We Were Never Immigrants": Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index