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Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker.
Dixon popularized the myth of the “Black Beast” rapist and amplified stereotypes of black men as preternaturally strong, “primitive” and inherently criminal. These fictitious ideas had ...
Table of Contents. I. Dixon's Ku Klux Klan Trilogy. II. The Black Beast, Reconstruction, and Segregation. III. The Leopard's Spots and the Black Beast. Why publish an electronic edition of Thomas Dixon's notorious trilogy of the Reconstruction era a century after he wrote The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907)?
15 de mar. de 2023 · This essay revisits this ongoing debate between Griffith (the filmmaker) and Thomas Dixon (author); it specifically critiques Dixon's novel and reveals his contradictory construction of white, Black, and mixed race characters. Download chapter PDF.
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SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker.
Thomas Dixon Jr. was born January 11, 1864, in Shelby, North Carolina. He is best known for his racist novel The Clansman (1905), which served as the basis for D. W. Griffith’s infamous film The Birth of a Nation (1915).
Thomas Dixon Jr. (1864-1946) was a white supremacist, novelist, playwright, and clergyman, originally from North Carolina. Dixon authored The Leopard's Spots (1902) and The Clansman (1905), which later was adapted into D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation (1915).
