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Dancing down the barricades : Sammy Davis Jr. and the long civil rights era : a cultural history

Dancing down the barricades : Sammy Davis Jr. and the long civil rights era : a cultural history

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958- author.
Book 2023

"Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business -- from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV -- Dancing down the barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy D...

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African Americans Civil rights History 20th century
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 1925-1990
Entertainers United States Biography
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ISBN:
9780520391802
Description:
xxviii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Preface : The long civil rights era
Star rising at twilight : a childhood in vaudeville
"A concentrated bunch of haters" : war time in Wyoming
The all-Negro cast, and other Black spaces
The Vegas Strip, network TV, and other white spaces
"Division is not our destiny" : interracial romance and Golden boy
Writing wrongs in Yes I can
"The skin commits you" : civil rights itinerary
Coda : what is the "post" of "post-civil rights"?
LCCN:
2022028884
Control Number:
3243444
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