Images of Blacks in American culture : a reference guide to information sources / edited by Jessie Carney Smith ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Jessie Carney, 1930- editor.

Giovanni, Nikki, writer of foreword.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in art.

Arts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.

Contents:

Foreword / Nikki Giovanni

Aspects of Black Imagery in American Art, 1700-1900 / David C. Driskell

Blacks on the Musical Stage / Thomas Riis

From Uncle Tom to Cliff Huxtable, Aunt Jemima to Aunt Nell: Images of Blacks in Film and the Television Industry / Nagueyalti Warren

Images of Blacks in Instrumental Music and Song / T. J. Anderson and Lois Fields Anderson

Literary Criticism and Black Imagery / Arlene Clift-Pellow

Images of Blacks in Children's Books / Jessie M. Birtha

The Black Female: Mammy, Jemima, Sapphire, and Other Images / Janet Sims-Wood

Sambo and Other Male Images in Popular Culture / Joseph Boskin

The Toy Menagerie: Early Images of Blacks in Toys, Games, and Dolls / Doris Y. Wilkinson

Black Americana Resources and Collections: Evidences of Blalck Imagery / Jessie Carney Smith.

Notes:

"First published in 1988."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0313248443

OCLC:

16756865