TY - BOOK ID - 77866831 TI - American racist PY - 2004 SN - 0813138248 1283232944 9786613232946 0813171911 9780813171913 9780813138244 0813123283 9780813123288 PB - Lexington University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Racism in literature. KW - Racism KW - Racism in motion pictures. KW - African Americans in literature. KW - African Americans in motion pictures. KW - Film adaptations KW - Authors, American KW - Motion pictures KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Afro-Americans in motion pictures KW - Negroes in moving-pictures KW - Race films KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Dixon, Thomas, KW - Dixon, Thomas F., KW - Political and social views. KW - Film and video adaptations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77866831 AB - "" Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and controversial 1915 feature film The Birth of a Nation. Perhaps unfairly, Dixon has been branded an arch-conservative and a racist obsessed with what he viewed as ""the Negro problem."" As American Racist makes clear, however, Dixon was a complex, multi-talented individual who, as well as writing some of the most popular novels of the early twentieth century, was involved in the production of some eighteen films. Dixon used the motion picture as a propaganda tool for his ER -