Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons booklet
Transnational Cinematic Popular Music Lena Horne Dorothy Dandridge Queen Latifah 1917 2017 centers twentieth and twenty first century black transnational stereotypes celebrities and symbols Lena Horne s Dorothy Dandridge s and Queen Latifah s transnational popular cultural struggles between domination and autonomy with a particular emphasis on their films and popular music Linking each performer to twentieth century U.
Book Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music icons8 African American and global gender histories and noting the intersections of race gender sexuality class and empire in their overlapping transnational biographies Transnational Cinematic Popular Music Lena Horne Dorothy Dandridge Queen Latifah 1917 2017 connects Horne Dandridge and Latifah to each other and legacies of Hollywood stereotypes and popular music s internationally routed politics Through a close reading of Horne s Dandridge s and Latifah s films and popular music the performers tie to historic black transnational caricatures from the tragic mulatto to Sapphire Mammy and Jezebel and additional non white female performers from Josephine Baker to Halle Berry maneuvering within transnational popular culture industrial matrices and against white supremacist and hetero patriarchal forces Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons Lena Horne Dorothy Dandridge and Queen Latifah 1917 2017
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