Museums in the Digital Age

Cinema and the God-Given Right to Play During the great migration of African Americans into major southern cities, Black people

This chapter is dedicated to the black actress Evelyn Preer, who appeared in many of Micheaux’s silent films. Her starring

The Ambitions of William Foster by Allyson Field reflects on the career of a Chicago-based African-American filmmaking entrepreneur who was always

Chapter 1 “To misrepresent a Helpless Race” by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart discusses the negative image of blacks portrayed in the

Chapter 8 of the book Oscar Micheaux and his Circle is titled “To Redream the Dream of White Playwrights: Reappropriation and

In this chapter, To “Encourage and Uplift”: Entrepreneurial Uplift Cinema, the author, Allyson Fields, traces filmmaking practices of several Black filmmaking

This intro is divided into three main sections. First, it provides an overview of the uplift project to better understand

In Allyson Field’s chapter “The Aesthetics of Uplift: The Hampton-Tuskegee Idea and the Possibility of Failure”, Field introduces the Hampton-Tuskegee

Corey K. Creekmur’s chapter “Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux Charles W. Chestnutt” in the book “Oscar Micheaux and his Circle”