Playing the race card : melodramas of Black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson / Linda Williams.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2001.

xviii, 401 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm

Published by Princeton University Press.

Third printing, and first paperback printing, 2002.

This book has been composed in Electra LH Twelve and Futura Condensed typefaces.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

The American Melodramatic Mode -- “A Wonderful, ‘Leaping’ Fish”: Varieties of Uncle Tom -- Anti-Tom and The Birth of a Nation -- Posing as Black, Passing as White: The Melos of Black and White Melodrama in the Jazz Age -- Rewriting the Plantation Legend: Scarlett “Totes a Weary Load” -- Home Sweet Africa: Alex Haley's and TV's Roots -- Trials of Black and White: California v. Powell and The People v. Orenthal James Simpson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])