Josephine Baker, Paperback

Reducere. Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...

With determination and audacity, Josephine Baker used her comic and musical abilities to become a worldwide icon of the Jazz Age. This lively biogr...

Beyond biography: a legendary performer's legacy of symbolismPublisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Bennetta Jules-RosetteIllustration(s...

Reducere. Born into poverty in a racially segregated Amercia, Josephine Baker flees to France where she embraces the hedonistic lifestyle on offer in Paris o...

Reducere. By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex all of this pointed to...

DescriptionWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Ann es folles, when Parisians emerged from the horr...

Reducere. Here is a continuation of selections from Flanner's celebrated "Letter from Paris, " a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 ove...

Uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the stu...

Reducere. Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic w...

Emilie Baker Loring was born about 1864 in Massachusetts. She sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Josephine Story. According to Reader's Friend, Ms...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves es...

Reducere. Harry Clemens Ulrich Kessler, seit 1879 von Kessler, seit 1881 Graf (von) Kessler (1868 - 1937), war ein deutscher Kunstsammler, M zen, Schriftstel...

Reducere. In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. No l investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century re...

DescriptionFrom the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the t...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

Reducere. DescriptionPioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made more than sixty films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and even sta...

Reducere. Having doubts about your next step? Ask yourself what artist Frida Kahlo would do in this "beautiful volume . . . sure to inspire" (Boston Globe). ...

Reducere. On November 28, 1973, the world's social elite gathered at the Palace of Versailles for an international fashion show. By the time the curtain came...

Reducere. One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearPowerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empat...