Full Description
Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: 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.S., 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 Icons: 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.
Contents
Introduction - Transnational Border Crossers: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah
Chapter One - Lena Horne: Black-Transnational Icon, Trailblazer, & Stereotype
Chapter Two - Dorothy Dandridge: "Bronze Goddess," "Tragic Mulatto," & Transnational Film Star
Chapter Three - Queen Latifah: Racial, Gender, Sexual, & Transnational Power Broker
Conclusion - Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah: Racial, Global Gender, Sexual, Cinematic, & Popular Music Border Crossers
Appendix - Filmographies and Discographies
