Colored memories : a biographer's quest for the elusive Lester A. Walton / / Susan Curtis
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| Autore: |
Curtis Susan <1956->
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| Titolo: |
Colored memories : a biographer's quest for the elusive Lester A. Walton / / Susan Curtis
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 070.92 |
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| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century |
| United States Race relations Case studies | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Colored memories |
| ISBN: | 0-8262-6629-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812930503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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