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Brown sugar : over one hundred years of America's Black female superstars / Donald Bogle.

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Van Pelt Library PN2286 .B6 2007
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Format:
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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