| A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood Subjects: African Americans in motion pictures; Race in motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures; African Americans in the motion picture industry; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Hollywood is often thought of--and certainly by Hollywood itself--as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the film industry grew deeply conservative when it came to conflicts over racial justice. Amid black self-assertion and white backlash, many of the most heated struggles in film were fought over employment. In A Piece of the Action , Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed wider racial politics, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes. Eithne Quinn is professor of cultural and socio-legal studies at the University of Manchester. She is author of Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap (Columbia, 2004), and her research focuses on injustice and racialization in the cultural industries and legal system. |