Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in the Spook Who Sat by the Door

Michael T. Martin is Director of the Black Film Center/Archive and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the editor or co-editor of six anthologies, including Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: Slavery, Jim Grow, and Their Legacies; and The Poetics and Politics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man (IUP). He also directed and co-produced the award winning feature documentary on Nicaragua, In the Absence of Peace, distributed by Third World Newsreel. David C. Wall is Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Studies at Utah State University at Utah State University. He co-edited The Poetics and Politics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man (IUP). Other recent work can be found in Nineteenth-Century Studies and A Companion to the Historical Film. Marilyn Yaquinto is Associate Professor of Communication and Interdisciplinary Studies at Truman State University in Missouri. She is author of Pump 'Em Full of Lead: A Look at Gangsters on Film and co-editor of Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: Slavery, Jim Grow, and Their Legacies. Dr. Yaquinto is a former journalist for the Los Angeles Time and shares in its Pulitzer Prize for spot news coverage of the 1992 LA riots linked to the Rodney King incident.