Blacks in American Films and Television: An EncyclopediaEncyclopedia of blacks in the motion picture and television industry over the past 90 years with over 200 rare photographs. |
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Page 138
... black community because they look too white . This , of course , is absurd . In the late 1940s and 1950s , light skin , straight hair , and keen features were valued in the black community , and these people would have had no real ...
... black community because they look too white . This , of course , is absurd . In the late 1940s and 1950s , light skin , straight hair , and keen features were valued in the black community , and these people would have had no real ...
Page 247
... black - cast sitcoms were beginning to look passe . Now whenever important black characters appeared in comedy series , usually they were lifted out of the black community and placed into a white environment — be it a family or work ...
... black - cast sitcoms were beginning to look passe . Now whenever important black characters appeared in comedy series , usually they were lifted out of the black community and placed into a white environment — be it a family or work ...
Page 445
... black women . Moreover , Poitier's militant hero in The Lost Man ( 1969 ) ... black audiences went to see Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song ( 1971 ) or Shaft ... community , Poitier plowed on , assuming control of a new project Buck and ...
... black women . Moreover , Poitier's militant hero in The Lost Man ( 1969 ) ... black audiences went to see Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song ( 1971 ) or Shaft ... community , Poitier plowed on , assuming control of a new project Buck and ...
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