Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997)

Almost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combinat...

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Main Author:	Claire Dutriaux
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines 2018-07-01
Series:	Revue LISA
Subjects:	African American cinema lynching race rape Singleton John stereotype
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/9444

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spelling	doaj-0bb46c0cd6ca4f20a9153753184233562021-10-02T06:52:45ZengMaison de la Recherche en Sciences HumainesRevue LISA1762-61532018-07-0110.4000/lisa.9444Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997)Claire DutriauxAlmost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combination of a western-style narrative with a black cowboy hero and a historical drama. This article explores the interplay between South and West and examines how Rosewood borrows from the Western genre to explore and rewrite racial history in the American South. The director makes use of generic hybridity to show the persistence of a “racial Frontier” on screen. The filmmaker modified the known accounts of the 1923 Rosewood massacre to include a Western-style resolution to historical conflicts.http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/9444African American cinemalynchingracerapeSingleton Johnstereotype
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description	Almost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combination of a western-style narrative with a black cowboy hero and a historical drama. This article explores the interplay between South and West and examines how Rosewood borrows from the Western genre to explore and rewrite racial history in the American South. The director makes use of generic hybridity to show the persistence of a “racial Frontier” on screen. The filmmaker modified the known accounts of the 1923 Rosewood massacre to include a Western-style resolution to historical conflicts.
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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997)

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