This study analyzes racial representations in a set of Hollywood films released between 1947 and 1961. These so-called "racial problem films" addressed the dilemma of American race relations in such a way as to position local, and sometimes intimate, racial tensions in relation to issues of U.S. national identity and international geopolitics during the Cold War era. Alongside official government discourse and articles on race in the mainstrea...
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