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The author of The Butler and Showdown explores a century of Black cinema, using the experiences of artists and films to reflect on Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Starting with D.W. Griffith's 1915 film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan, the narrative unfolds an insightful history of Black filmmakers and actors, both in front of and behind the camera. The text highlights how social changes influenced the film industry and its representations, addressing issues from Jim Crow laws to the Black Lives Matter movement. It examines significant films such as The Imitation of Life, Gone With the Wind, and Black Panther, while also shedding light on the careers of pivotal figures like Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, and Spike Lee. This important work offers a comprehensive history of Black cinema and a fresh perspective on contemporary racism in America.
The untold story of Sammy Davis, Jr.: This incisive biography and sweeping cultural history conjures "the many worlds [Davis, Jr.] traversed, and shows how the issue of race, in his own mind and in the minds of his fans and detractors, shaped his career and life" (The New York Times). For decades one of America’s most recognizable stars, the real Sammy Davis, Jr. has long remained hidden behind the persona the performer so vigorously generated—and so fiercely protected. Here Wil Haygood brings Davis’s life into full relief against the backdrop of an America in the throes of racial change. He made his living entertaining white people but was often denied service in the very venues he played, and in his broad and varied friendships—not to mention his romances—Davis crossed racial lines in ways few others had. In Black and White vividly draws on painstaking research and more than two hundred and fifty interviews to trace Davis, Jr.’s journey from the vaudeville stage to Broadway, Hollywood, and, of course, Las Vegas. It is an important record of a vanished America—and of one of its greatest entertainers.
The authors retrace their journey from the headwaters of the Mississippi in Minnesota down the entire length of the river to the Gulf of Mexico