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Professor Emerita of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston

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Present	Professor Emerita of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Massachusetts Boston
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American Studies, Women's History, and Ethnic Studies

Articles (11)

Hollywood Imagines Revolutionary Haiti: the Forgotten Film Lydia Bailey (1952)

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2021)

Judith E. Smith

This essay explores the history of Lydia Bailey, the only US studio-made film to depict the Haitian Revolutionary period. It ...

The Making of A Raisin in the Sun

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2018)

Judith E. Smith

Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun premiered on the Broadway stage in January 1959 just as the edifice ...

The Rape of Recy Taylor [film review]

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2018)

Judith E. Smith

Nancy Buirksi’s documentary The Rape of Recy Taylor centers on a brutal sexual assault in Abbeville, Alabama in 1944. A ...

“It Is Time for Artists to Be Heard”: Artists and ...

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2018)

Judith E. Smith

In The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, James Smethurst writes that “Black arts cultural nationalism ...

“Calypso”—Harry Belafonte (1956)

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2017)

Judith E. Smith

Harry Belafonte, the Harlem-born son of poor undocumented Jamaican immigrants, an untrained singer whose heart was set on becoming an ...

Bessie [film review]

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2015)

Judith E. Smith

Bessie opens with an arresting shot of Queen Latifah as singer Bessie Smith, dressed in the white costume familiarized by ...

Ruby Dee, 1922-2014

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2014)

Judith E. Smith

Ruby Dee was a marvelously expressive actor, and a lifelong risk-taking radical committed to challenging racial and economic inequality. She ...

Makers: Women Who Make America [film review]

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2013)

Judith E. Smith

The three-hour documentary MAKERS: WOMEN WHO MADE AMERICA, promises to tell “how women have helped shape America over the last ...

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2013)

Judith E. Smith

Encyclopedia entry on "Urban Culture" submitted for inclusion in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, ed. by ...

Civil Rights, Labor, and Sexual Politics on Screen in Nothing ...

Black Camera (2012)

Judith E. Smith

The independently made 1964 film Nothing But a Man is one of a handful of films whose production coincided with ...

Amelia [film review]

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2010)

Judith E. Smith

What is the cultural terrain staked out by Amelia, the recent Hollywood-distributed biopic about intrepid flyer Amelia Earhart? The quick ...

Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical

Judith E. Smith

A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to ...

Evolution of American Urban Society, 8th edition

Howard P. Chudacoff, Judith E. Smith and Peter C. Baldwin

The Evolution of American Urban History blends historical perspectives on society, economics, politics, and policy, while focusing on the ways ...

Finding a New Home in Harlem: Alice Childress and the ...

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2017)

Judith E. Smith

Alice Childress’s performing career in the 1940s was primarily associated with the American Negro Theater, a collectively run professional theater ...

Literary Radicals in Radio’s Public Sphere

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2016)

Judith E. Smith

Radio was THE emerging medium in the middle decades of the twentieth century, and radio historians have helped us understand ...

Judy Holliday's Urban Working Girl Characters in 1950s Hollywood ...

American Studies Faculty Publication Series (2010)

Judith E. Smith

A Jewish-created urban and cosmopolitan working girl feminism persisted in the 1950s as a cultural alternative to the suburban, domestic ...