Colored memories [electronic resource] : a biographer's quest for the elusive Lester A. Walton / Susan Curtis
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TextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 290 p.) : illISBN: - 9780826266293 (electronic bk.)
- 0826266290 (electronic bk.)
- African Americans -- Biography
- African American journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Theater critics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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UMPLIB GAMBANG | E185.97.W1344 C87 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 0000056349 |
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index
"Explores the life of African American Lester A. Walton whose illustrious career spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century but who is now forgotten. Curtis explores the failure of collective memory and America's obsession with race as she explains how she discovered Walton and his place in history"--Provided by publisher
Mode of access : Internet