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Goudsouzian, Aram.

Sidney Poitier man, actor, icon / [electronic resource] : Aram Goudsouzian. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004. - xii, 480 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-465) and index.

pt. 1. Poverty and progress ; Patches (1927-1943) ; Great migrations (1943-1945) ; Stages (1945-1949) -- pt. II. Race man ; Message movies (1949-1952) ; Black lists (1951-1954) ; Threats (1955-1957) ; Noble savages (1956-1957) -- pt. III. Black man's burden ; Decisions (1957-1959) ; Burdens (1959-1961) ; Blues (1960-1962) ; Long journeys (1963-1964) -- pt. IV. Alone in the penthouse ; Crossroads (1965-1966) ; Useful negroes (1966-1967) ; Last hurrahs (1967-1968) -- pt. V. Through playing God ; Exiles (1967-1971) ; Survivors (1972-1978) ; Ghosts (1978-2002).


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Personal Names:
Poitier, Sidney.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Actors--United States--Biography.
African American actors--Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN2287.P57 / G68 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/028/092 B