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Stepin Fetchit
The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
Av Mel Watkins
E-bok, 2010
176 kr
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In the late 1920s and ''30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the best actor that the talking movies have produced,” …
Dancing with Strangers
A Memoir
Av Mel Watkins
Häftad, 2002
314 kr
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From a renowned editor of The New York Times comes a moving memoir that recounts his life from its start. Beginning with his turbulent childhood as an African American coming of age in the 1950s and 1960s, Mel Watkins pens a poignant and powerful memoir of his life at all stages, including his …
Staples and Beyond
Selected Writings of Mel Watkins
Av Mel Watkins
E-bok, 2006
1041 kr
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This collection brings together Watkins'' most important scholarly articles. In Staples and Beyond Watkins addresses the "staple thesis" of Canadian economic and political development and, in particular, the effort to extend Harold Innis'' work by giving more explicit consideration to class …
Dene Nation
The Colony Within
Av Mel Watkins
Häftad, 1977
273 kr
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This collection of papers by some twenty contributors has been selected in the main from presentations made up to the Berger Inquiry, and reflects the efforts of the Dene people to block the construction of a pipeline through the Mackenzie Valley lands they claim as their own. The issue is broader …
Dene Nation
The Colony Within
Av Mel Watkins
E-bok, 1977
359 kr
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This collection of papers by some twenty contributors has been selected in the main from presentations made up to the Berger Inquiry, and reflects the efforts of the Dene people to block the construction of a pipeline through the Mackenzie Valley lands they claim as their own. The issue is broader …
On the Real Side
A History of African American Comedy
Av Mel Watkins
E-bok, 1999
149 kr
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This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans …
Staples and Beyond
Selected Writings of Mel Watkins
Av Mel Watkins
Häftad, 2006
411 kr
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A collection of seminal papers by a leading contributor to the development of the new political economy
