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Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters
In this powerful biography, Bogle recovers the rich fullness of singer Ethel Waters’ life. Bogle traces Waters’ rise from the poverty of her surroundings in Chester, Pennsylvania, through her early musical successes in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s to her film and Broadway career and her later religious conversion as her health declined. Waters’ records helped to create a new record-buying public, and she ushered in a style of popular singing that later singers like Diana Ross would try to imitate. Bogle chronicles her intimate relationships with both men and women as well as her stormy relationships with other artists, like Josephine Baker and Lena Horne. Bogle’s thorough and unflinchingly honest look at Waters’ brilliant and flawed life will undoubtedly be the definitive biography of this great woman. (Publishers Weekly) |
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films This special anniversary gift edition of the enduring study of black images in motion pictures is issued to celebrate thirty years since original publication. For all serious filmgoers and collectors, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks is an essential resource. It has not been available in hardcover for many years. This Fourth Edition, originally published in paperback at the close of 2001, thus covers the entire 20th century. |
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Prime Time Blues: African Americans on Network Television [Amazon] |
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Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams : The Story of Black Hollywood
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day. |
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Dorothy Dandridge : A Biography
She captured America’s hearts in such stunning films as Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess. Finally, the true story of America’s first Black movie star is revealed in this brilliant, in-depth biography-from her turbulent childhood in Cleveland, to her Hollywood girlhood, her battles against racism, her rise to fame, her marriage and affairs, and her professional and personal decline. The first Black woman nominated for an Academy Award Dorothy Dandridge paved the way for thousands of Black women. |
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Brown Sugar: Over One Hundred Years of America’s Black Female Superstars
First published in 1981, 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. Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Katherine Dunham, Hazel Scott, Marian Anderson, Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Dorothy Dandridge, Leontyne Price, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Tina Turner — Brown Sugar narrates the triumphant struggle of these women to make it in the entertainment industry against overwhelming odds. |
