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Bennetta Jules-Rosette is a professor of sociology and the director of African and African-American Studies at the University of California, San Diego.  She is the author of a number of books including Black Paris, African Apostles, and The Messages of Tourist Art.

Beyond biography: a legendary performer’s legacy of symbolism

 

The New York Times - Kaiama L. Glover

Still, Baker has inspired several biographies and documentaries, and the question arises about the need for yet another. But Bennetta Jules-Rosette, the author of Black Paris and other books, makes a solid case for just one more with her well-researched and original Josephine Baker in Art and Life. Like many writers before her, Jules-Rosette is clearly captivated by her subject, but she manages to temper her star-struck curiosity with impressive intellectual rigor.

List of Illustrations     ix
Foreword: A Luminous Humanism   Simon Njami     xii
Preface     xv
Acknowledgments     xvii
Prologue     1
Creating the Image
Touring with Baker's Image     13
Opening Nights     47
Celluloid Projections     72
Living the Dream
Dress Rehearsals     127
Baker's Scripts     155
Hues of the Rainbow in a Global Village     184
Changing the World
Legendary Legionnaire     213
Echoes and Influences     243
Eternal Comeback     268
Chronology     287
Notes     297
Bibliography     327
Discography     341
Index     345