Ombres et lumières La visibilité de l'homme noir au cinéma

In Invisible Man, his famous novel published in 1952, Ralph Ellison describes in about 600 pages the realization of a black man of his own invisibility in a world ruled by Whites. The fifties are also years when the American cinema represents, at last, segregation as one of the major issues of an America sick of its racism. This text wonders how was progressively built a visibility of the black man in the mainstream American cinema since the advent of talking pictures with.