Uncle Tom's Cabin: Before and After the Jim Crow Era

Michele Wallace is Professor of English, Women's Studies, and Film at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center, and is also the author of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso, 1990) and Invisibility Blues (Verso, 1990). She recently completed her dissertation, “Passing, Lynching, and Jim Crow: Race and Gender in US Visual Culture, 1895–1928” in Cinema Studiesat Tisch School of the Arts/NYU