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Magicians --- African American magicians --- African American entertainers --- Entertainers --- Ventriloquists --- Potter, Richard, --- African American entertainers. --- African American magicians. --- Ventriloquists.
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"Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern culture more than 40 years after her death"--
Dancers --- African American dancers --- African American entertainers --- Political activists --- Baker, Josephine,
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African American entertainers. --- African American men. --- Human skin color. --- United States --- Race relations.
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For the first half of the twentieth century, the best coverage of blacks in entertainment--especially the developing motion picture industry--was in the newspapers published and circulated by the African American community. This annotated bibliography adds to the first volume with easy access to entertainment coverage in two more of the most influential black newspapers during that time: the Pittsburgh Courier and the California Eagle. These papers were selected for their wide circulation, proximity to the two major American geographical centers for film production, and their high quality cove
African American entertainers --- Entertainers --- Performers --- Performing artists --- Show business personalities --- Show-men --- Artists --- Afro-American entertainers --- Entertainers, African American --- Negro entertainers --- African Americans in the performing arts
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Creating a sensation with her risqué nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elysées, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe, Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the celebrated personality, showing how her ambitions of later years were even more daring and subversive than the youthful exploits that made her the first African American superstar. Her performing days numbered, Baker settled down in a sixteenth-century chateau she named Les Milandes, in the south of France. Then, in 1953, she did something completely unexpected and, in the context of racially sensitive times, outrageous. Adopting twelve children from around the globe, she transformed her estate into a theme park, complete with rides, hotels, a collective farm, and singing and dancing. The main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe, the family of the future, which showcased children of all skin colors, nations, and religions living together in harmony. Les Milandes attracted an adoring public eager to spend money on a utopian vision, and to worship at the feet of Josephine, mother of the world. Alerting readers to some of the contradictions at the heart of the Rainbow Tribe project--its undertow of child exploitation and megalomania in particular--Guterl concludes that Baker was a serious and determined activist who believed she could make a positive difference by creating a family out of the troublesome material of race.
Dancers --- African American entertainers --- Afro-American entertainers --- Entertainers, African American --- Negro entertainers --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Entertainers --- Baker, Josephine, --- McDonald, Freda Josephine, --- Family.
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Traces the history of comic stereotype of the Black performer and explains how it was finally eradicated.
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West (Rebecca). --- Jazz musicians --- United States --- Biography --- Horne, Lena --- New York (State) --- African American entertainers --- West, Rebecca --- Journalists --- Novelists, English --- West, Rebecca, --- Andrews, Cecily Isabel Fairfield, --- Fairfield, Cecily Isabel, --- Fairfield, Cicely Isabel, --- Fairfield, Cicily Isabel, --- וסט, רברה, --- Lynx,
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