| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America. Ed. by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. x, 224 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-8071-3130-X.)

In the September 2005 issue of the Journal of American History, I reviewed American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon (2004), by Anthony Slide. A politician, actor, lawyer, minister, novelist, and filmmaker, Dixon (1864–1946) was a charismatic, popular, and unapologetic southern racist. "One walks away from reading American Racist," I wrote,

wanting more scholarship, a deeper understanding of the meaning of race practiced by Dixon and his southern contemporaries, and a more sophisticated analysis of the relationship between authorship, audiences, and racism in early cinema. (JAH, Sept. 2006, p. 644)

The scholarship called for in that critique can be found in Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America, an anthology edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall.

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