African American actresses : the struggle for visibility, 1900-1960 / Charlene Regester.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Regester, Charlene B., 1956-
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
African American women in motion pictures.
African American motion picture actors and actresses > Biography.
Actors > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xi, 405 pages, 14 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Madame Sul-Te-Wan : the struggle for visibility
  • Nina Mae McKinney : early success and tumultuous career
  • Louise Beavers : negotiating racial difference
  • Fredi Washington : the masquerades and the masks
  • Hattie McDaniel : centering the margin
  • Lena Horne : actress and activist
  • Hazel Scott : resistance to othering
  • Ethel Waters : personification of otherness
  • Dorothy Dandridge : intertwining the reel and the real
  • Conclusion.