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Book Review

Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness. Ed. by Daniel Bernardi. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. xxvi, 516 pp. Cloth, $62.95, ISBN 0-8166-3238-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8166-3239-1.)
May I begin this brief review with a declaration of full disclosure; seven years ago an essay of mine appeared in a previous book edited by Daniel Bernardi, the editor of the book under discussion here. I confess to this not merely to conform to an ethical point but also to call attention to a movement afoot in our profession, that of "whiteness studies," a still sketchily defined field that makes the medium of anthology an adventure in unevenness, not so much in quality but in focus. Bernardi's first volume was called The Birth of Whiteness (1996), and its subtitle is Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema; this sequel carries the argument forward into the era of "classic Holly-wood." . . .
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