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1) Dancing down the barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the long civil rights era : a cultural history

Author

Jacobson, Matthew Frye

Publisher

University of California Press

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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"Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business-from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV-Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy Davis Jr....