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...said. In the past year, he revealed, three New Zealand residents had been refused passports after being ruled "security risks." The opposition National Party wants the three expelled. "If we allow people to come here and stay here even though they're a security risk," says immigration spokesman Wayne Mapp, "then we essentially invite others like them to come to this country as a safe haven...
...Bogle's is one of a small, sturdy shelf of books about race films. Here are a few from my own shelves: Thomas Cripps' "Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942" (mostly about 30s Hollywood's view of race relations); John Kisch and Edward Mapp's "A Separate Cinema," replete with hundreds of color reproductions of movie posters and a good Bogle introduction; and Henry T. Sampson's invaluable "Blacks in Black & White: A Source Book on Black Films," which offers the most detailed history of the companies that produced black-cast films and the personalities...
...John Kisch and Edward Mapp...
...period from the beginning of race movies through the era of Poitier and Belafonte are the subject of A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters by John Kisch and Edward Mapp. This book is a glossy compilation of hundreds of posters used in promoting independent race movies and Hollywood features with an important African-American presence. Spike Lee offers an inconsequential preface that is thoroughly put to shame by the excellent introduction by Donald Bogle...
...urged "doing away with Miranda," the 1966 ruling that criminal suspects must be advised of their right not to answer questions, and he has denounced the 1961 Mapp vs. Ohio verdict blocking the use in a trial of illegally seized evidence. Such judgments aid only the guilty, he said, insisting, "You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime...