Dancing down the barricades : Sammy Davis Jr. and the long civil rights era : a cultural history
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Nonfiction | 792.709 DAVIS | In Library |
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Physical Desc
xxviii, 314 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
UPC
40031670440
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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"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 Davis Jr. was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti-Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race, against a backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better understanding Davis's life and career, Dancing Down the Barricades examines the complexities of his constraints, freedoms, and choices for what they reveal about Black history and American political culture"--,Provided by publisher
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jacobson, M. F. (2023). Dancing down the barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the long civil rights era : a cultural history . University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-. 2023. Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era : A Cultural History. University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-. Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era : A Cultural History University of California Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era : A Cultural History University of California Press, 2023.
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