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A professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, Donald Bogle is the foremost authority on African Americans in film. His books, which include Dorothy Dandridge, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, and Primetime Blues, have won awards and wide critical acclaim. In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Bogle tells the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which blacks have made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them