American Film Institute. (1997). A Prince of His Race. Within our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. (Gevinson, A.,Ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 794

This entry in the American Film Institute’s Catalog gives production information and a brief summary of the Colored Players’ film, A Prince of His Race from a Chicago Defender article. A note under the entry puts the budget of this film at $14,000, “a costly figure for black films at that time” (794). Two press citations are also listed: (New York Age, 4 Dec 1926, p. 6; Chicago Defender, 27 Nov 1926, p. 7. By Elissa Stern

Stellar Colored Picture At…Royal Theater Next W…. Philadelphia Tribune, 3. July 17, 1926. [Cited in Oscar Micheaux and his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era / Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser editors and curators. [0253339944] Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.]

The article includes a summary of A Prince of His Race by the Colored Players Film Corporation and an announcement for its exhibition at the local Royal Theater. Moreover, the article states that “an excellent supporting cast of local talent” was used in the film. By Elissa Stern