Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism by Terri Simone Francis

Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism

Terri Simone Francis

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Josephine Baker, the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. Nicknamed the "Black Venus," "Black Pearl," and "Creole ...

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