Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America's Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition) - Softcover

Donald Bogle is one of the foremost authorities on African Americans in film and the arts. He is the author of the classic Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, which is published by Continuum. His best-selling Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood received the Hurston/Wright Finalist Legacy Award in Non-fiction. His other books include the critically acclaimed Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography; Blacks in American Films and Television: An Illustrated Encyclopedia; and Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television. He has appeared on such television programs as Entertainment Tonight; Today; Good Morning, America; and Nightline; and has served as a commentator on such documentaries as Spike Lee's Jim Brown: All-American, American Movie Classics' Small Steps . . . Big Strides, and TV Land's three-part series on African Americans on television. He also co-hosted Turner Classic Movies' award-winning series Race and Hollywood. The first edition of the present book, Brown Sugar, covered eighty years of America's black female superstars, and was turned into the highly successful four-part PBS documentary series by Mr. Bogle.

"Let's all nod in appreciation to Donald Bogle for putting everything in historical perspective.... Mr. Bogle continues to be our most important noted Black cinema historian." —Spike Lee

"Thank goodness for Donald Bogle."—Essence

"America's leading historian on black cinema."—USA Today

"Bogle is passionate and good-humored. His book is valuable as a film reference work and social document."—Gene Siskel

"From Billie Holiday to Queen Latifah, from the Supremes to Destiny's Child, Brown Sugar rolls out the red carpet for decade after decade of delectable divas. Profiles include insightful and juicy historical perspectives on the rise, and sometimes fall, of a long list of America's most celebrated pop princesses." — Vibe Vixen

“Let’s all nod in appreciation to Donald Bogle for putting everything in historical perspective.... Mr. Bogle continues to be our most important noted Black cinema historian.” —Spike Lee

“Bogle is passionate and good-humored. His book is valuable as a film reference work and social document."—Gene Siskel

“From Billie Holiday to Queen Latifah, from the Supremes to Destiny’s Child, Brown Sugar rolls out the red carpet for decade after decade of delectable divas. Profiles include insightful and juicy historical perspectives on the rise, and sometimes fall, of a long list of America’s most celebrated pop princesses.” – Vibe Vixen