New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. xvii, 326. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $35.00. ISBN: 0300279981 A Well Researched and Impressive Biography This study of the wartime role of the ...
Josephine Baker arrived in Paris from the slums of St. Louis in 1925 and rose to stardom playing a stereotype of an African “primitive” in “La revue nègre,” a musical act featuring an all-black cast.