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“But where could Black women see and be seen in public? … The role of a Black flâneuse who openly engages in the new looking and social relations made possible along the bustling Stroll seems, in these discourses, unsavory, if not unthinkable”

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In ch 2, Stewart argues that “Blackness” in pre-classical cinema (cinema prior to the institutionalization of a particular cinematic code and form) was unstable and did not subscribe to one singular meaning. As many of these films perpetuated racist stereotypes they also inadvertently commented on the issues produced by racism (esp in films of mistaken racial identity)