Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Race and the Hollywood Style -- PART I. CLASS -- 1. "What You Are . . .I Wouldn't Eat": Ethnicity, Whiteness, and Performing "the Jew" in Hollywood's Golden Age -- 2. From Second String to Solo Star: Classic Hollywood and the Black Athlete -- 3. Dark City: White Flight and the Urban Science Fiction Film in Postwar America -- 4. "They Worship Money and Prejudice": The Certainties of Class and the Uncertainties of Race in Son of the Gods -- PART II. GENDER -- 5. "The Loveliest and Purest of God's Creatures": The Three Faces of Eve and the Crisis of Southern Womanhood -- 6. The Redskin and The Paleface: Comedy on the Frontier -- 7. Dolores del Río, Uncomfortably Real: The Economics of Race in Hollywood's Latin American Musicals -- 8. Humanizing the Beast: King Kong and the Representation of Black Male Sexuality -- 9. Commodity, Tragedy, Desire: Female Sexuality and Blackness in the Iconography of Dorothy Dandridge -- 10. Orientalism Abroad: Hong Kong Readings of The World of Suzie Wong -- PART III. WAR -- 11. Indianism? Classical Hollywood's Representation of Native Americans -- 12. Sincere Fictions of the White Self in the American Cinema: The Divided White Self in Civil War Films -- 13. Creatures of Good and Evil: Caucasian Portrayals of the Chinese and Japanese during World War II -- 14. December 7th: Race and Nation in Wartime Documentary -- 15. "Coward, Take My Coward's Hand": Racism, Ableism, and the Veteran Problem in Home of the Brave and Bright Victory -- PART IV. INDUSTRY -- 16. The Demands of Authenticity: Addison Durland and Hollywood's Latin Images during World War II -- 17. Star Dances: African-American Constructions of Stardom, 1925 -1960 -- 18. Listening to Race: Voice, Mixing, and Technological "Miscegenation" in Early Sound Film.

19. "Extremely Dangerous Material": Hollywood and the "Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie" -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.