Black magic : White Hollywood and African American culture

SUMARIO. Black magic, disembodied. // Marlon Brando's jazz acting and the obsolescence of blackface / Borrowing Black masculinity: Dirty Harry finds his gentle side / Passing tones: The talented Mr. Ripley and Pleasantville // Serving the white audience. The racial displacements of Ransom and Fargo / Black angels in America : millennial solutions to the race problem // Unrepresentable subjects. Evidence : Thelonious Monk's challenge to jazz history / Revenge of the Nerds : representing the White male collector of Black music // Black magic, inverted. Robert Altman's jazz history lesson / Spike Lee meets Aaron Copland.