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This thought-provoking work examines the dehumanizing depictions of black males in the movies since 1910, analyzing images that were once imposed on black men and are now appropriated and manipulated by them. Discusses the social, historical, and literary evolution of African American male roles in the cinema Analyzes the various black images presented each decade from blackface, Sambo, and Mandingo stereotypes to archetypal figures such as God, superheroes, and the president Shows how African American actors, directors, and producers manipulate negative and positive images to advance their careers, profit financially, and make social statements to create change Demonstrates the correlation between political and social movements and their impact on the cultural transformation of African American male images on screen over the past 100 years Includes figures that demonstrate the correlation between political and social movements and their impact on cultural transformation and African American male images on screen,.
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About KIMBERLY
Kimberly Fain, M.A., J.D., dubbed the Contemporary Voice of Cultural and Literary Critique, continues to test the boundaries of what we consider politically correct. Fain's insight into cultural issues subverts the status quo thinking in terms of historical and contemporary subject matter. Oftentimes, insisting that the truth makes societies uncomfortable but stronger as a culture.
Fain has taught at Texas Southern University and is currently an adjunct professor at Houston Community College. Due to Fain's background in literature and research as a legal intern for federal judges and a Texas state senator, Fain's publications specialize in the sociopolitical intersection of race, gender, and class in both classic literature and pop culture.
Furthermore, Fain is a licensed attorney who was awarded two teaching and writing fellowships from the Houston Teachers Institute at the University of Houston's Honors College (2007 & 2008) . In 2012, Fain won the Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Scholarly Award. During the same year, Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law, & Social Policy published her co-authored law article "Socio-Economic Status and Legal Factors Affecting African American Fathers" (2012) . One year later, Fain received the Norman Mailer Semi-Finalist Award for her non-fiction personal narrative "Reinvention" (2013) . Currently, she has two major book publications Black Hollywood (Praeger 2015) and Colson Whitehead (Rowman & Littlefield 2015) .
