The Nominees Are... Black Oscars from Mammy to Minny
About This Event
Join the author of Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us About African Americans, Dr. Frederick Gooding, Jr., for a discussion of the 2020 Oscar nominees. For over ninety years, Oscar winners have been considered the standard-bearers of all things imaginable within American culture. Given the Oscars’ popularity, they reflect and reinforce the complicated legacy of African American participation in film.