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  title info:
    title: Four stars in the night sky
    sub title: a multiple case psychobiography : exploring the lives and careers of Bert Williams, Ethel Waters, Dorothy Dandridge, and Sammy Davis, Jr
  title info:
    title: 4 stars in the night sky
  name:
    name part: Short, Ellen L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Psychobiography has the potential to reveal the complexity of individuals' lives. Psycho-biographies of well-known individuals have focused, with a few exceptions, primarily on anal-yses of the lives of well known White males, whose profiles and accomplishments have certainly been worthy of such attention. The availability of psychobiographies, however, of well known People of Color in history and contemporary contexts is quite limited. Additionally, psychobiog-raphies of prominent women and especially Women of Color is also limited. This book will con-tribute to filling a void in the psychobiographical literature about prominent Black/African Amer-ican individuals. This book is a multiple case psychobiography of the lives of four Black/African American performing artists Bert Williams (November 12, 1874 - March 4, 1922), Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977), Dorothy Dandridge (November 9, 1922 - September 8, 1965), and Sammy Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 - May 16, 1990). Bert Williams, Ethel Waters, Doro-thy Dandridge, and Sammy Davis, Jr. were talented and successful Black/African American en-tertainers and artists. But, despite their talent and success, they faced unique barriers in the en-tertainment industry and in society in a variety of contexts, including but not limited to racism and sexism. Moreover, the eras that each of them came of age in were historical time periods that reflected particular societal mores and values related to race, culture, gender and other aspects of intersectionality. It is my belief that the attention and rewards they received as performing artists were not commensurate with their talent. This book will present a psychobiographical examina-tion of each subject's racial-cultural identity, personality, intersectionality, talent, and profession-al careers as well as their embeddedness in historical and contemporary cultural contexts. Bert Williams, Ethel Waters, Dorothy Dandridge, and Sammy Davis, Jr. had complex placem…
  note: Ellen L. Short.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Williams, Bert
      name part: 1874-1922
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Waters, Ethel
      name part: 1896-1977
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dandridge, Dorothy
      name part: 1922-1965
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jr
      name part: Davis, Sammy
      name part: 1925-1990
  subject:
    topic: African American entertainers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Artistes du spectacle noirs américains
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Biographies
  classification: PN2286 .S46 2024
  classification: 791.08996073
  identifier: 9798887305516
  identifier: 9798887305509
  identifier: 9798887305523
  identifier: 2024002022
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240326
    record change date: 20250802185327.0
    record identifier: in00005654435
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng