Akosua Adasi’s Reviews > Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity > Status Update

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)