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Jesse Algeron Rhines

Assistant professor of political economy in the African American and African Studies Department at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He is an assistant editor for Cinéaste magazine and the author of Black Film/White Money, a book examining how on-screen portrayals of African Americans has been shaped by social and political forces.

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