Charlene Regester

Charlene Regester is associate professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies and affiliate faculty with the Global Cinema Minor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960 (2010) and coeditor with Mae Henderson of The Josephine Baker Critical Reader (2017). Her essays have appeared in In the Shadow of “The Birth of a Nation”: Racism, Reception and Resistance (2023), Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited (2021), and Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity (2020).