Mia Mask is a professor of film at Vassar College, where she holds the Mary Riepma Ross 1932 endowed chair of film. She has appeared on CNN's The Movies, the Smithsonian Channel, the Criterion Channel, and has provided commentary on National Public Radio. Her books include Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age and Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Football Heroes Invade Hollywood Black Masculinity on Horseback: From Duel at Diablo to Buck and the Preacher Blaxplotation versus Black Liberation: The Charley Trilogy Harlem Rides the Range: Nobody Told You There Were Black Cowboys Westerns and Westploitation: Brothas and Sistas at the O.K. Corral Appendix: Interview with Jeff Kanew Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
"Mask provides an insightful commentary on the Civil Rights era and its African-American-themed Westerns from today's perspective."--Angela Aleiss, author of Hollywood's Native Americans: Stories of Identity and Resistance