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Book SynopsisTransnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne''s, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah's transnational popular cultural struggles between domination and autonomy, with a particular emphasis on their films and popular music. Linking each performer to twentieth century U.S., African-American, and global gender histories and noting the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and empire in their overlapping transnational biographies, Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 connects Horne, Dandridge, and Latifah to each other and legacies of Hollywood stereotypes and popular music's internationally-routed politics. Through a close reading of Horne''s, Dandridge''s, and Latifah's films and popular music, the performers tie to historic black-transnat
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Transnational Border Crossers: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah Chapter One – Lena Horne: Black-Transnational Icon, Trailblazer, & Stereotype Chapter Two – Dorothy Dandridge: “Bronze Goddess,” “Tragic Mulatto,” & Transnational Film Star Chapter Three – Queen Latifah: Racial, Gender, Sexual, & Transnational Power Broker Conclusion – Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah: Racial, Global Gender, Sexual, Cinematic, & Popular Music Border Crossers Appendix – Filmographies and Discographies
