She creates a new dialogue about how popular entertainment has fostered racial sympathy as well as mistrust, and how those images still shape us today.""/>
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"With its thought-provoking analysis and textbook scholarship, 'PLAYING THE RACE CARD is still a passionately crafted book. But Williams's greatest contribution may be liberating a discussion of race from the incendiary rhetoric and polemics that accompany such a discourse.
She creates a new dialogue about how popular entertainment has fostered racial sympathy as well as mistrust, and how those images still shape us today."Linda Williams is the author of 'Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson', published 2002 under ISBN 9780691102832 and ISBN 069110283X.