Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

African American Actresses
The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960
Charlene Regester

“In this important work, Charlene Regester brings into focus the lives and careers of representative black women actresses in Hollywood across generational divides in order to reposition them beyond the confining shadow of otherness and marginality. The sum result is a re-telling and correction of history.” --Audrey McCluskey, Indiana University Bloomington

Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about prevailing racial politics, on-screen and off-screen identities, and black stardom and white stardom. She reveals how these women fought for their roles as well as what they compromised (or didn't compromise). Regester repositions these actresses to highlight their contributions to cinema in the first half of the 20th century, taking an informed theoretical, historical, and critical approach.

440 pp., 14 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35475-4 $75.00
paper 978-0-253-22192-6 $27.95

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