Daniel Bernardi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future (1998) and the editor of The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of US Cinema (1996) and Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness (2002).

Introduction: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Part 1: Generic History Manifest Myth-Making: Texas History in the Movies. Mapping the Beach: Beach Movies, Exploitation Film and Geographies of Whiteness. Boyz, Boyz, Boyz: New Black Cinema and Black Masculinity Part 2: Anthropomorphism Star Wars Episodes I-VI: Coyote and the Force of White Narrative. The Whiteness of the Rings. Neo Abolitionists, Colorblind Epistemologies and Black Politics: The Matrix Trilogy Part 3: Blood & Bodies Vampires of Color and the Performance of Multicultural Whiteness. The Naked and the Dead: The Jewish Male Body and Masculinity in Sunshine and Enemy at the Gates. Framing Jennifer Lopez: Mobilizing Race from the Wide Shot to the Close-Up Part 4: Desire to Desire Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Eldridge Cleaver & the Supreme Court, or Reforming Popular Racial Memory with Hepburn and Tracy. Master-Slave Sex Acts: Mandingo and the Race/Sex Paradox. The Tragedy of Whiteness and Neo-Liberalism in Brad Kaaya's 'O'/Othello. Romeo Must Die: Interracial Romance in Action Part 5: Provocateurs The Dark Side of Whiteness: Sweetback and John Dollard's Idea of The Gains of the Lower Class Negroes. Black Like Him: Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple. Crossover Diva: Whoopi Goldberg and Persona Politics. Surviving in Living Color with Some White Chicks: Whiteness in the Wayans' (Black) Minds. Glossary to Terms