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Brown Sugar : Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars / by Donald Bogle ; designed by Joan Peckolick.
LIBRA Rare PN2286 .B6 1980 Banks copy
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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:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harmony Books, [1980].
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1900-1920: beginnings
- The 1920s: personas
- The 1930s: pop myths
- The 1940s: social symbols
- The 1950s: sex symbols
- The 1960s: political symbols
- The 1970s: survivors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 205) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bogle, Donald. Brown sugar.
- ISBN:
- 0517536374
- 9780517536377
- 0517536382
- 9780517536384
- OCLC:
- 5333775
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