Pub Date: February 6, 2007
Dewey: B
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.94" H x 8.00" L x 5.36" W ( 0.72 lbs) 384 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | Entertainment and Performing Arts | Cultural and Regional | Women | Social Science | Discrimination incl Prejudice Racism Colorism etc | Cultural and Ethnic Studies | African American and Black Studies | Womens Studies | Feminism and Feminist Theory | Music | Sociology | General | African American and Black | Historical
Description: Watts presents an uncompromising look at the pervasive racism in Hollywood as seen through the life and times of the highly regarded--yet always controversial--actress Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actress to win an Academy( Award (for her role in "Gone With the Wind").
Brief description:
A professor of history at California State University and the coordinator of the film studies program at California State University, San Marcos, Jill Watts has written two previous books, God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story and Mae West: An Icon in Black and White. She lives in San Marcos, California.
Review Quotes:
"A provocative biography." - Edward Rothstein, The New York Times on Mae West: An Icon in Black and White
"Fascinating. . .A compelling, disturbing history of blacks in early Hollwyood." - Publishers Weekly
"Engagingly written....Watts's research is prodigious and she writes with acuity and verve." - Diahann Carroll
"Watt's sympathetic biography...tracks the career of the actress who, in 1940, became the first African American ever to win an Oscar. Watts [has a] skill for concise, thematic storytelling." - New York Times Book Review