Tackling the rise of neoracism and the domestic apparatus of surveillance, control, and erasure, Hold It Real Still offers an astonishing revision of what audiences and critics thought they understood about a uniquely American genre of film.
Lawrence P. Jackson (BALTIMORE, MD) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Chester B. Himes: A Biography and Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore.