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AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTRESSES
AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTRESSES
Subtitle:
The Struggle for Visibility, 1900
Book Category:
Art > Film & Video
Author:
Charlene Regester
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
978-0-253-22192-6
Price:
USD 27.95
Publication Year:
2010

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Indiana University Press.

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Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about prevailing racial politics, on-screen and off-screen identities, and black stardom and white stardom.

 

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