Matthew Frye Jacobson
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 314 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business-from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV-Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy Davis Jr....