"Slow Fade to Black"

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This paper briefly summarizes the book explaining the main plot and storyline. It reviews the book as it relates to racism and the African-American's struggle towards equality. It focuses on the movie industry and how black actors had to fight for a fair place in the world of arts. It concludes with various reactions to the book by the public and the movie industry itself.

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"Throughout history literary authors have used their works to portray a point or condition that they want the world to understand. In Thomas Cripps, Slow Fade to Black, Cripps works to underscore the fate of the black actor in film between 1900 and 1942. Literature is a wonderful medium for educating the world about the plight of blacks before the civil rights movement afforded them protection against blatant discrimination. The author can chronologically detail events or might choose a different style of writing to allow readers to see the first hand account of black life during certain eras. Cripps used the writing medium to educate his readers about the plight of the black actor at the beginning of the 20th century. He spends time explaining why it was the way it was and how whites had a different set up when it came to film and production(Cripps, 1993)."

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