Introduction: appropriation, exploitation, and agency of black performers in Hollywood
Black images from Jim Crow to the McCarthy era of blacklisting. 1910s: whites in blackface and the sexually depraved black Mandingo-The birth of a nation
1920s: Oscar Micheaux's response to blackface and D.W. Griffith
1930s: the Hays Moral Code and Jim Crow-The emperor Jones and Gone with the wind
1940s: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry: black servants in musicals and comedies
1950s: McCarthyism and blacklisting: Canada Lee and Paul Robeson
Black images from the apex of the civil rights era peak into the age of Barack Obama
1960s: token black actors in the civil rights age: Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte
1970s: blaxploitation: preachers, pimps, pushers, and players
1980s: black comedians rule: in the age of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor
1990s: gangsta rappers transcend music: Ice Cube, Ice-T, DMX, Nas, and 2pac
2000s: black icons: control, agency, and self-appropriation: Spike Lee, Tyler Perry and Will Smith
2010s: black power Hollywood: Django unchained and Twelve years as a slave in the age of Obama's hope and change
Conclusion.