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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812930503321

Autore

Curtis Susan <1956->

Titolo

Colored memories : a biographer's quest for the elusive Lester A. Walton / / Susan Curtis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8262-6629-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Disciplina

070.92

B

Soggetti

African Americans

African American journalists - New York (State) - New York

Theater critics - New York (State) - New York

African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Intellectual life - 20th century

African Americans - Race identity

Memory - Social aspects - United States

Biography - Research - United States

New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century

United States Race relations Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Encountering a Ghost -- Remembering Walton -- Chapter 1 Lester and Me -- Chapter 2 Mysteries in the Archives -- Part II: Treachery and Duplicity -- Race Man -- Chapter 3 Capitalizing Negro -- Chapter 4 Pictures of His Face -- Chapter 5 A Passing Comment -- Chapter 6 The Crisis on the Links -- Chapter 7 Something Doin' -- Chapter 8 Some Trip -- Part III: The Man Behind the Scenes -- Representation -- Chapter 9 Representing the Democratic Party -- Chapter 10 Representing the United States -- Chapter 11 Representing Liberia -- Part IV: Trauma -- Reenactment -- Chapter 12 Escape of the Kaffirs -- Chapter 13 Exodus -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Explores the life of African American Lester A. Walton whose illustrious career spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century but who is



now forgotten. Curtis explores the failure of collective memory and America's obsession with race as she explains how she discovered Walton and his place in history"--Provided by publisher.