Sidney Poitier
Subtitle: man, actor, icon
By: by Aram Goudsouzian.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Poitier, Sidney.; Actors -- United States -- Biography.; African American actors -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents: pt. 1. Poverty and progress ; Patches (1927-1943) ; Great migrations (1943-1945) ; Stages (1945-1949); title: pt. II. Race man ; Message movies (1949-1952) ; Black lists (1951-1954) ; Threats (1955-1957) ; Noble savages (1956-1957); title: pt. III. Blackman's burden ; Decisions (1957-1959) ; Burdens (1959-1961) ; Blues (1960-1962) ; Long journeys (1963-1964); title: pt. IV. Alone in the penthouse ; Crossroads (1965-1966) ; Useful negroes (1966-1967) ; Last hurrahs (1967-1968); title: pt. V. Through playing God ; Exiles (1967-1971) ; Survivors (1972-1978) ; Ghosts (1978-2002).