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Apr 19, 2014 · Josephine Baker in 1959 with some of the 11 children of different races she adopted. She called them her rainbow tribe. At right is husband Jo Bouillon.
Apr 14, 2014 · Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe by Matthew Pratt Guterl is published this month by Harvard University Press. You can purchase it through the press’ website , or at local bookstores. Back to Search Results
Apr 14, 2014 · Hardcover. $36.90 11 Used from $7.57 19 New from $33.94. Creating a sensation with her risqué nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elysées, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe, Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known ...
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Apr 8, 2024 · Josephine Baker (born June 3, 1906, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died April 12, 1975, Paris, France) was an American-born French dancer and singer who symbolized the beauty and vitality of Black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s. Baker grew up fatherless and in poverty.
Guterl’s account of the genesis of Baker’s idea of the Rainbow Tribe is marked by his skill in discerning Baker’s likely motivations out of the inevitable silences and contradictory statements of the historical record. Here, and throughout, Guterl parses out of this refractory evidence a persuasive account of Baker’s decision to ...
Nov 22, 2021 · Josephine Baker overcame the racism that she parodied in her famous banana skirt dance to become the world's first Black female superstar. ... She installed what she called her "Rainbow Tribe" in ...
Apr 14, 2014 · Guterl is astute about the contradictions in Baker’s experiment and her celebrity, both of which rested on her capacity for reinvention. New Yorker. Matthew Guterl’s astonishing Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe tells the wholly unsuspected life-story of one of the twentieth-century’s most amazing visionaries. It is an engrossing ...
