• Media type: Book; Biography
  • Title: African American actresses : the struggle for visibility, 1900 - 1960
  • Contains: Introduction -- Madame Sul-Te-Wan : the struggle for visibility -- Nina Mae McKinney : early success and tumultuous career -- Louise Beavers : negotiating racial difference -- Fredi Washington : the masquerades and the masks -- Hattie McDaniel : centering the margin -- Lena Horne : actress and activist -- Hazel Scott : resistance to othering -- Ethel Waters : personification of otherness -- Dorothy Dandridge : intertwining the reel and the real -- Conclusion.
  • Contributor: Regester, Charlene B. [Author]
  • Published: Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]: Indiana Univ. Press, 2010
  • Extent: XI, 405 S; Ill; 23 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0253354757; 0253221927; 9780253221926; 9780253354754
  • RVK notation: AP 59783 : USA
    AP 51900 : Filmschauspieler
    AP 59770 : Afrika
  • Keywords: USA > Filmschauspielerin > Schwarze Frau > Geschichte 1900-1960
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  • Footnote: Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-390) and index. - Introduction -- Madame Sul-Te-Wan : the struggle for visibility -- Nina Mae McKinney : early success and tumultuous career -- Louise Beavers : negotiating racial difference -- Fredi Washington : the masquerades and the masks -- Hattie McDaniel : centering the margin -- Lena Horne : actress and activist -- Hazel Scott : resistance to othering -- Ethel Waters : personification of otherness -- Dorothy Dandridge : intertwining the reel and the real -- Conclusion

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