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 /

"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...

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Author / Creator: Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Davis, Sammy, > Jr., > 1925-1990.
Davis, Sammy, > Jr., > 1925-1990
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Entertainers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights
Entertainers
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of 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"?

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