Suggested Reading
Colloquium participants submitted this list of suggested readings to create a context for the discussion:
Blackmon, Douglas. Slavery By Another Name. Anchor Books, 2008.
Blight, David. “Fifty Years of Freedom and Reunion” in Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Harvard University Press, 2001.
Wallace, Michele. “The Good Lynching and The Birth of a Nation: Discourses and Aesthetics of Jim Crow,” Cinema Journal 43, No. 1, Fall 2003, 85-104.
Wallace, Michele. “Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates: The Possibilities for Alternative Visions,” in Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, eds. Oscar Micheaux and His Circle African American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2010, 53-66.
Wallace, Michele.”Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Before and after the Jim Crow Era,” Drama Review 44, no. 1 (spring 2000): 137-56.
Wallace, Michele. Two chapters on the score for “The Birth of a Nation” in Music and the Silent Film: Contexts & Case Studies, 1895-1924 by Martin Miller Marks, Oxford University Press, 1997.
