| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Black Manhood on the Silent Screen. By Gerald R. Butters Jr. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xviii, 270 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1197-5.)

Gerald R. Butters Jr., an assistant professor of history at Aurora University, offers scholars of early-twentieth-century American culture an original work on the role of black masculinity in the silent film era. Butters writes in a clear and open style, offering a study that is as rich in historical detail as it is passionate in scope. He addresses a range of important subjects: from stereotypes such as Sambo and Zip Coon to "race movies," or films produced and directed by European Americans for black audiences, to works produced and directed by African American filmmakers. The latter subject is central to his project, and thus Black Manhood on the Silent Screen engages an important but often overlooked aspect of early cinema.

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