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Brown sugar : over one hundred years of America's Black female superstars / Donald Bogle.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bogle, Donald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American entertainers--Biography.
- African American entertainers.
- Women entertainers--United States--Biography.
- Women entertainers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- New expanded & updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, 2007.
- Summary:
- This newly designed and completely updated edition of Donald Bogle's classic study and celebration of America's "dark divas" now takes readers up to the present. Major publicity and promotion planned.
- Contents:
- 1900-1920 Beginnings 13
- The 1920s Personas 27
- The 1930s Pop Myths 59
- The 1940s Social Symbols 91
- The 1950s Sex Symbols 119
- The 1960s Political Symbols 147
- The 1970s Survivors 177
- The 1980s Old School Goddesses of Gliltz, New School Ingenues 211
- The 1990s Million Dollar Babies 271
- The 2000s Mavens of the New Millennium 339.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [370]-372) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826416759
- 0826416756
- OCLC:
- 123485618
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