![]() ![]() In his eagerness to praise Black performers who managed to survive in the Hollywood system, Cripps fails to recognize that the kinds of film roles given Black performers often reveal more about racial relations within the society than do the simple existence and number of those roles. Although far more detailed than two other recent books on the subject, Donald Bogle's Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks (New York: Bantam, 1974) and Daniel Leab's From Sambo to Superspade: The Black Experience in Motion Pictures (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), Cripps' work, which covers only the years 1900 to 1942, suffers from an uncritical acceptance of individualistic liberal notions of racial progress. Slow Fade to Black represents a backward step in the effort to understand the complex and often contradictory role of Blacks in the history of U.S. ![]() Thomas Cripps, Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. by Robert Pest JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1978, 2005 ![]()
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