{"id":16537,"date":"2011-09-26T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T22:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16537"},"modified":"2013-09-02T17:49:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T17:49:05","slug":"a-review-of-%e2%80%9cmixed-race-hollywood%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16537","title":{"rendered":"A Review of \u201cMixed Race Hollywood\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Review of \u201cMixed Race Hollywood\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quarterly Review of Film and Video<\/a>
\nVolume 28, Issue 5<\/a> (2011)
\npages 428-433
\nDOI: 10.1080\/10509200902820589<\/a><\/p>\n

Delia Konzett<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English
\nUniversity of New Hampshire<\/em><\/p>\n

Mixed Race Hollywood<\/a><\/em>, edited by Mary Beltr\u00e1n<\/a> and Camilla Fojas<\/a>. New York: New York University Press, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem of the 20th century, W. E. B. Dubois<\/a> would famously write in 1903, is that of the color line. Over 100 years later, we can unfortunately still say the problem of the 21st century is the color line, particularly our inability to move beyond entrenched binary conceptions of race (white\/black or white\/nonwhite) and acknowledge the new multiracial contexts that inform our present global, multicultural, and multimedia era. Mixed Race Hollywood<\/em> is a timely and extremely valuable collection of essays that explores the various facets of the history of mixed race representation in mainstream American film and media.<\/p>\n

Such representation has a long and complex tradition in Hollywood<\/a>, ranging from the notorious depiction of the treacherous mulatto<\/a> in Birth of a Nation<\/a><\/em> (D. W. Griffith<\/a>, 1915) and the non-threatening interracial pairing of Shirley Temple<\/a> and Bojangles Robinson<\/a> in The Little Colonel<\/a><\/em> (David Butler, 1935) and The Littlest Rebel<\/a><\/em> (David Butler, 1935) to the mixed race love affair in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner<\/a><\/em> (Stanley Kramer<\/a>, 1967) that symbolically announced the arrival proper of civil rights. Since the mid 1990s, as the anthology’s editors Mary Beltr\u00e1n and Camilla Fojas note, there has been a significant cultural shift in mixed race representation as seen in the “veritable explosion of multiracial imagery in…<\/p>\n

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A Review of \u201cMixed Race Hollywood\u201d Quarterly Review of Film and Video Volume 28, Issue 5 (2011) pages 428-433 DOI: 10.1080\/10509200902820589 Delia Konzett, Associate Professor of English University of New Hampshire Mixed Race Hollywood, edited by Mary Beltr\u00e1n and Camilla Fojas. New York: New York University Press, 2008 The problem of the 20th century, W. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20],"tags":[847,7655,1903,846,7654],"class_list":["post-16537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-camilla-fojas","tag-delia-konzett","tag-mary-beltran","tag-mary-c-beltran","tag-quarterly-review-of-film-and-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}