Black magic : white Hollywood and African American culture Black magic disembodied. Marlon Brandos jazz acting and the obsolescence of blackface ; Borrowing Black masculinity: Dirty Harry finds his gentle side ; Passing tones: The talented Mr. Ripley and Pleasantville Black magic for Whites only. The racial displacements of Ransom and Fargo ; Black angels in America : millennial solutions to the race problem Unrepresentable subjects. Evidence : Thelonious Monks challenge to jazz history ; The revenge of the Nerds : representing the White male collector of Black music Syncretic alternatives. Robert Altmans jazz history lesson ; Spike Lee meets Aaron Copland