In the following essay, Magowan explores the idea of miscegenation, concluding that both the white woman and the white man are supposedly subject to black sexual predators in several of Dixon's...
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In the following essay, McGee examines the discourse used in The Clansman, arguing that the novel uses the language of both dystopia and utopia.
Whenever lists of the cinematic canon are produced b...
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In the following chapter from her book on American fictional representations of the nature of blackness in the nineteenth century, Boeckmann asserts that, in The Leopard's Spots and The Clansma...
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In the following essay, Oakes's close textual reading of The Clansman reveals substantial similarities between Walt Whitman's and Dixon's descriptions of Reconstruction-era Washin...
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In the following essay, da Ponte reviews contemporary reaction to the dramatic adaptation of The Clansman.
Few people today remember his name. It is not to be found in such general and specialized ...
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In the following introduction to a reprint of The Clansman, Clark places the novel in its historical context.
The first thing to be said in discussing Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s novel The Clansman ...
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Critical Essay by Kim Magowan
