Table of Contents:
  • Thomas Dixon: American Proteus / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
  • "My books are hard reading for a Negro": Tom Dixon and his African American critics, 1905-1939 / John David Smith
  • Gender and race in Dixon's religious ideology / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
  • "Ours is a century of light": Dixon's strange consistency / David Stricklin
  • Thomas Dixon and the literary production of whiteness / Scott Romine
  • Thomas Dixon and race melodrama / Jane M. Gaines
  • The cinematic representation of race in The birth of a nation: a Black horror film / Charlene Regester
  • Do movies have rights? / Louis Menand
  • Epilogue: the enduring worlds of Thomas Dixon / William A. Link.