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African Americans and the Oscar : decades of struggle and achievement / Edward Mapp.
Published 2008Table of Contents: Full text (Emerson users only)
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How it feels to be free : black women entertainers and the civil rights movement / Ruth Feldstein.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction: performing civil rights -- "The world was on fire": making New York City subcultures -- "Africa's musical ambassador": Miriam Makeba and the "voice of Africa" in the United States -- "More than just a jazz performer": Nina Simone's border crossings -- "No one asks me what I want": black women, Hollywood, and "integration narratives" in the late 1960s -- "So beautiful in those rags": Cicely Tyson and African American history in the 1970s -- Epilogue.…”
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American Masters, How It Feels to Be Free / PBS.
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African Americans and the Oscar : seven decades of struggle and achievement / by Edward Mapp.
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Hattie McDaniel -- James Baskett -- Ethel Waters -- Dorothy Dandridge -- Sidney Poitier -- Juanita Moore -- Sidney Poitier -- Beah Roberts -- Rupert Crosse -- James Earl Jones -- Diana Ross -- Cicely Tyson -- Paul Winfield -- Diahann Carroll -- Howard E. …”
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Reeling / Pauline Kael.
Published 1976Table of Contents: “…Soul Food -- Sex in the Head -- Dusty Pink -- The Irish Inheritance -- Tango -- Pop versus Jazz -- Anarchist's Laughter -- Hyperbole and Narcissus -- Foundering Fathers -- Notes on Black Movies -- New Thresholds, New Anatomies -- Round Up the Usual Suspects -- Star Mutations -- Flesh -- Unfair -- Poetry and Politics -- Out of Traged, Suds -- Lady Zelda -- The Businessman-Pimp as Hero -- The Riddles of Pop -- A Generation's Clown -- Crooks -- Lost and Found -- Kings -- A Rip-off with Genius -- After Innocence -- Everyday Inferno -- Three -- Movieland-The Bums' Paradise -- Un-People -- Moments of Truth -- Bloodless and Bloody -- Politics and Thrills -- Humanoids and Androgynes -- Strawberry Jam -- The Hero as Freak -- Labyrinths -- Survivor -- Back to the Ouija Board -- Killing Time -- A New Voice for Hoffman -- Cicely Tyson Goes to the Fountain -- Love and Coca-Cola -- Nicholson's High -- O Consuella! …”
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Neighbors / Collegia Capital, Llc.
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The Rosa Parks Story / Xenon Pictures.
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