Lectura Dantis Americana Sandra Ryan John Nightingale

John Nightingale

Harvey Hill describes the emergence

This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge

with much of their wealth being self-made

and led breakthroughs in lesbian and alternative presses

Lectura Dantis Americana Sandra Ryan John NightingaleThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899 1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.