Barbara Tepa Lupack is former professor of English at Wayne State College and academic dean at SUNY.

Barbara Lupack's incisive analysis of pejorative female stereotypes common during cinema's earliest decades brilliantly illuminates the broader workings of American popular and political cultures of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Considering our own moment, when malignant media distortions and untruths have become all the more difficult to discern, and are routinely proclaimed at the highest levels of power, Lupack's corrective history couldn't be more relevant, or urgent.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNote on Terminology and UsageIntroductionChapter 1: African AmericansChapter 2: African Americans: Race FilmsChapter 3: Native AmericansChapter 4: Native Americans: Native ResponsesChapter 5: LatinsChapter 6: AsiansChapter 7: The New WomanChapter 8: SuffragistsConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

Barbara Tepa Lupack is former professor of English at Wayne State College and academic dean at SUNY.

Barbara Lupack's incisive analysis of pejorative female stereotypes common during cinema's earliest decades brilliantly illuminates the broader workings of American popular and political cultures of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Considering our own moment, when malignant media distortions and untruths have become all the more difficult to discern, and are routinely proclaimed at the highest levels of power, Lupack's corrective history couldn't be more relevant, or urgent.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNote on Terminology and UsageIntroductionChapter 1: African AmericansChapter 2: African Americans: Race FilmsChapter 3: Native AmericansChapter 4: Native Americans: Native ResponsesChapter 5: LatinsChapter 6: AsiansChapter 7: The New WomanChapter 8: SuffragistsConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author