Introduction / Barbara Tepa Lupack
"Put together to please a colored audience": Black churches, motion pictures, and migration at the turn of the twentieth century / Cara Caddoo
The birth of a nation, melodramas of Black and white, and early race filmmaking / Linda Williams
The ambitions of William Foster: entrepreneurial filmmaking at the limits of Uplift Cinema / Allyson Nadia Field
In-and-out-of-race: the story of Noble Johnson / Jane Gaines
Evelyn Preer as a vehicle of victimization in Micheaux's films / Charlene Regester
Capitalizing on race: white producers of all-Black cinema / Gerald R. Butters, Jr., Ph. D.
"Busting 'em wide open": Richard E. Norman and the Norman Manufacturing Company / Barbara Tepa Lupack
Mediating Black modernity: the influence of the race press on race films / Anna Everett
The Lafayette Theater: crucible of African-American dramatic arts / Cary D. Wintz
The great migration and the rise of an urban "race film" culture / Davarian L. Baldwin
Race cinema, the transition to sound, and Hollywood's African-American-cast musicals / Ryan Jay Friedman
Preserving race films / Jan-Christopher Horak.