Black Children in Hollywood Cinema

Debbie Olson, PhD, is Assistant Professor of English at Missouri Valley College, USA.  She is Editor-in-Chief of Red Feather Journal: An International Journal of Children in Popular Culture (www.redfeatherjournal.org), and editor of Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock (2014) and The Child in Post-apocalyptic Cinema (2015).  She is currently working on her next book, On Innocence.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. African American Girls in Hollywood Cinema.- 3. Black Boys and the Urban Ghetto Child.- 4. Soldier Bo[d]y: The Transnational Circulation of the African (American) Savage Child Image.- 5. The Black Child Star.