Hattie McDaniel : Black ambition, White Hollywood

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Label

Hattie McDaniel : Black ambition, White Hollywood

Title remainder

Black ambition, White Hollywood

Statement of responsibility

Jill Watts

Creator

• Watts, Jill, 1958-

Contributor

• hoopla digital
• Turpin, Bahni

Subject

• McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

From an accomplished historian comes an uncompromising look at the pervasive racism in Hollywood, as seen through the life and times of actress Hattie McDaniel Hattie McDaniel is best known for her performance as Mammy, the sassy foil to Scarlett O'Hara in the movie classic Gone with the Wind. Her powerful performance won her an Oscar® and bolstered the hopes of black Hollywood that the entertainment industry was finally ready to write more multidimensional, fully-realized roles for blacks. But despite this victory, and pleas by organizations such as the NAACP and SAG, roles for blacks continued to denigrate the African American experience. So Hattie McDaniel continued to play servants. "I'd rather play a maid then be a maid," Hattie McDaniel answered her critics, but her flip response belied a woman who was emotionally conflicted. Here, in an exhaustively detailed and incisive text by a talented historian, is the story of a valiant woman who defied the racism of her time. From an accomplished historian comes an uncompromising look at the pervasive racism in Hollywood, as seen through the life and times of actress Hattie McDaniel. 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

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

791.4302/8/092

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

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Literary text for sound recordings

other

PerformerNote

Read by Bahni Turpin

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

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