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Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Digest ... June 8-10, 1981, Washington, D. C.
Author: Digest ... June 8-10, 1981, Washington, D. C.
Author: Earth Resources
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ISBN:
Category : Astronautics in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Marginal Ice Zone Bibliography
Author: SEC News Digest
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ISBN:
Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Lists documents available from Public Reference Section, Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tenth Anniversary Seminar ; Passive Microwave Users Workshop ; Microwave Radiometry Bibliography
Author: Claire S. HansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frozen ground
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Energy
Author: Summary of Activities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Sidney Poitier
Author: Aram GoudsouzianPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875848
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to his 2002 Oscar for lifetime achievement. Poitier is a gifted actor, a great American success story, an intriguing personality, and a political symbol; his life and career illuminate America's racial history. In such films as Lilies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Poitier's middle-class, mannered, virtuous screen persona contradicted prevailing film stereotypes of blacks as half-wits, comic servants, or oversexed threats. His screen image and public support of nonviolent integration assuaged the fears of a broad political center, and by 1968, Poitier was voted America's favorite movie star. Through careful readings of every Poitier film, Goudsouzian shows that Poitier's characters often made sacrifices for the good of whites and rarely displayed sexuality. As the only black leading man during the civil rights era, Poitier chose roles and public positions that negotiated the struggle for dignity. By 1970, times had changed and Poitier was the target of a backlash from film critics and black radicals, as the new heroes of "blaxploitation" movies reversed the Poitier model. In the 1970s, Poitier shifted his considerable talents toward directing, starring in, and producing popular movies that employed many African Americans, both on and off screen. After a long hiatus, he returned to starring roles in the late 1980s. More recently, the film industry has reappraised his career, and Poitier has received numerous honors recognizing his multi-faceted work for black equality in Hollywood. As this biography affirms, Poitier remains one of American popular culture's foremost symbols of the possibilities for and limits of racial equality.
Digest and Decisions of the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board
Author: United States. Employees' Compensation Appeals BoardPublisher:
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Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description