false 163714 774429 082641267X 9780826412676 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178235172m/774429.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178235172s/774429.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774429.Toms_Coons_Mulattoes_Mammies_Bucks_An_Interpretive_History_of_Blacks_in_American_Films 4.25 40 163714 4.21 121 16 1973 1042536 1567430341 9781567430349 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180458825m/1042536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180458825s/1042536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1042536.Dorothy_Dandridge 4.22 23 Toms, Coons, Mammies, Mulattoes, and Bucks. Here, in his new biography, he turns his gaze on Dorothy Dandrige, a bronze goddess of the silver screen. Stunningly beautiful and enormously talented, Dandridge had the misfortune to practice her craft at a time when Hollywood trafficked only in black stereotypes. She starred in several films--among them Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Bizet's Carmen, and the musical Porgy and Bess. But because there were few black male romantic leads, and Hollywood could not conceive of pairing her with a white actor, Dandridge's career languished. In 1965, she was found dead in her apartment of a drug overdose. Bogle's excellent book brings Dandrige and her times to life again, portraying this remarkable woman in all her strength and fragility.]]> 163714 4.21 121 16 1997 482829 0345454197 9780345454195 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175126192m/482829.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175126192s/482829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482829.Bright_Boulevards_Bold_Dreams_The_Story_of_Black_Hollywood 4.00 10
Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day. We discover that Black Hollywood was a place distinct from the studio-system-dominated Tinseltown–a world unto itself, with unique rules and social hierarchy. It had its own talent scouts and media, its own watering holes, elegant hotels, and fashionable nightspots, and of course its own glamorous and brilliant personalities.

Along with famous actors including Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Hattie McDaniel (whose home was among Hollywood’s most exquisite), and, later, the stunningly beautiful Lena Horne and the fabulously gifted Sammy Davis, Jr., we meet the likes of heartthrob James Edwards, whose promising career was derailed by whispers of an affair with Lana Turner, and the mysterious Madame Sul-Te-Wan, who shared a close lifelong friendship with pioneering director D. W. Griffith. But Bogle also looks at other members of the black community–from the white stars’ black servants, who had their own money and prestige, to gossip columnists, hairstylists, and architects–and at the world that grew up around them along Central Avenue, the Harlem of the West.

In the tradition of Hortense Powdermaker’s classic Hollywood: The Dream Factory and Neal Gabler’s An Empire of Their Own, in Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle re-creates a vanished world that left an indelible mark on Hollywood–and on all of America.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 163714 4.21 121 16 2005 1042537 0374127204 9780374237202 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180458826m/1042537.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180458826s/1042537.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1042537.Primetime_Blues_African_Americans_on_Network_Television 4.57 7 Primetime Blues is the first comprehensive history of African Americans on the network series. Donald Bogle traces the changing roles of African Americans on primetime -- from the blatant stereotypes of television's early years to the more subtle stereotypes of recent eras. Bogle also reveals another equally important aspect of TV history: namely, that television has been invigorated by extraordinary Black performers -- from Ethel Waters and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson to Cicely Tyson, Flip Wilson, Redd Foxx, and those mighty power brokers Cosby and Oprah -- who frequently use the medium to make personal and cultural statements, and whose presence on the tube has been of enormous significance to the African American community. Bogle's exhaustive study moves from the postwar era of Beulah and Amos 'n' Andy to the politically restless sixties reflected in I Spy and the edgy, ultra-hip characters of The Mod Squad. Bogle comments on the short-lived East Side, West Side, the controversial Julia, and the television of the seventies, when a nation still caught up in Vietnam and Watergate retreated to the ethnic humor of Sanford and Son and Good Times; and on the politically conservative eighties, marked by the unexpected success of The Cosby Show. He explores die-hard Bonded Buddies on such series as Spenser: For Hire, and those Teen Dream heroes of Miami Vice. Finally, Bogle turns a critical eye to the television landscape of the nineties -- when Black and white viewers often watched entirely different programs -- with shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, ER, and The Steve Harvey Show. He also examines TV movies and miniseries such as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots. Ultimately, this important book gives us a history rich in personalities and tensions as well as paradoxes and achievements.]]> 163714 4.21 121 16 2001 482837 0306803801 9780306803802 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175126204m/482837.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175126204s/482837.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482837.Brown_Sugar_Eighty_Years_of_America_s_Black_Female_Superstars 4.57 7 Brown Sugar narrates the triumphant struggle of these women to make it in the entertainment undustry against overwhelming odds.</div>]]> 163714 4.21 121 16 1984 482828 0671675389 9780671675387 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482828.Blacks_in_American_Films_and_Television_An_Encyclopedia 4.75 4 163714 4.21 121 16 1989 7005613 0307514935 9780307514936 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7005613-bright-boulevards-bold-dreams 0.0 0 163714 4.21 121 16 2009 482834 0824008340 9780824008345 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482834.Black_Arts_Annual_1987_1988 0.0 0 163714 4.21 121 16 1989