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“... films that deal with the rape of black women and the lynching of black men. As Bowser and Spence suggest in Writing Himself into History, such candour was rare in the early African American cinema, where self-congratulatory accounts of racial progress were the rule. While Micheaux had intermittent problems with local censors, his career thrived during ...”

“... The chapter entitled ‘Ada Coleman’s American Bar’, for example, spends plenty of time on Louise Pommery and her brut champagne (Coleman was bartender at the Savoy for more than twenty years); the chapter on Veuve Clicquot discusses Tatsu’uma Kiyo’s house of sake. The chapter on Mary Frith (Middleton and Dekker’s ‘Roaring Girl’) describes ...”