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Top 10 Best "African American Posters" Books

#10

What It Is... What It Was!; The Black Film Explosion of the '70s in Words and Pictures

Andres Chavez
Denise Chavez
Gerald Martinez

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Imaging Blackness

African American Posters

Imaging Blackness

These striking, colorful posters, selected from the more than one thousand housed at Indiana University's Black Film Center/Archive, graphically illustrate the artistic and thematic range of racial representation in the American film industry from its early days through the present. Chosen for their value as cultural artifacts, they combine art and commerce and are richly imbued with historical and social meanings that continue to engage and inform. The earliest posters, such as the one from pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, represent truly independent productions. That crop of "race movies," dating from the late 1920s through the early 1940s, targeted a black audience hungry for respectful images of themselves. In Hollywood films, however, black life was often presented in contorted and narrowly defined ways, reflective of America's racial morass. Yet as a whole, the posters managed to capture the artistry, if not the full range, of black performance.

Many of these posters appear in the touring exhibition "Imaging Blackness: Film Posters from the Black Film Cent...

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#9

Close-Up in Black

Thomas & Mapp
Edward
& Mehr
Linda Harris Cripps

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#8

Close up in Black

LindaMehr

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#7

A Separate Cinema

John Kisch
Edward Mapp
Donald Bogle
Spike Lee

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#6

Women of Hope

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#5

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I eBook

Myers Gustavus

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#4

Barack H. Obama

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#3

African-Americans Bulletin Board Set

Carson-Dellosa Publishing

#2

African-American Achievers Bulletin Board Set…

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Close Up in Black African-American Film Posters

Lots of great prints of Black film posters.

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Close Up in Black African-American Film Posters

African American Posters
#1

African American History Month Poster

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