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Colored memories : a biographer's quest for the elusive Lester A. Walton / Susan Curtis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtis, Susan, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African American journalists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- African American journalists.
- Theater critics--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Theater critics.
- African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans--Race identity--Case studies.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Memory.
- Biography--Research--United States--Case studies.
- Biography.
- New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- United States--Race relations--Case studies.
- United States.
- Walton, Lester A., 1882-1965.
- Walton, Lester A.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Explores the life of African American Lester A. Walton whose illustrious career spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century but who is now forgotten. Curtis explores the failure of collective memory and America's obsession with race as she explains how she discovered Walton and his place in history"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Encountering a Ghost
- Remembering Walton
- Chapter 1 Lester and Me
- Chapter 2 Mysteries in the Archives
- Part II: Treachery and Duplicity
- Race Man
- Chapter 3 Capitalizing Negro
- Chapter 4 Pictures of His Face
- Chapter 5 A Passing Comment
- Chapter 6 The Crisis on the Links
- Chapter 7 Something Doin'
- Chapter 8 Some Trip
- Part III: The Man Behind the Scenes
- Representation
- Chapter 9 Representing the Democratic Party
- Chapter 10 Representing the United States
- Chapter 11 Representing Liberia
- Part IV: Trauma
- Reenactment
- Chapter 12 Escape of the Kaffirs
- Chapter 13 Exodus
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6629-0
- OCLC:
- 646208899
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