The Rat Pack as American Prototypes: Frank, Sammy and Dean - American Stereotype - Couverture souple

Stelly, Dr. Matthew C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1973837315 ISBN 13 : 9781973837312

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop - known as "The Rat Pack"because they were happy-go-lucky entertainers who drank, smoked cigarettes and womanized and in doing so captured the attention of American popular culture. But were they prototypes or stereotypes? In this book I provide background information on each of them, while putting emphasis on the racial climate that they lived in. Sammy Davis was not the only victim of stereotypes: Dean because the drunken Italian (which he exploited), Frank was the womanizing quasi-Mafioso, and Peter Lawford the butt-kissing Brit. Having read the autobiographies of all of these men, it is clear that there was an internal hierarchy and that each man's life was and remains, in itself, a case study on American race and ethnicity. This book explores American popular culture, race and ethnic relations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

AUTHOR’S BIO Matthew C. Stelly is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee working on a degree in Urban Education and Community Policy. He holds three Master’s degrees: Urban Studies (1982), Urban Education (1983) and Political Science (2000). He is the former editor of the Milwaukee Courier newspaper, former director of the Great Plains Black Museum and the Plano (TX) African American Museum, and lead archivist for The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL) in Dallas, Texas. Stelly has more than 2,500 articles in print and has won two national essay competitions. He is the founding director of the largest African-American neighborhood group in Nebraska, the Triple One Neighborhood Association and Parents Union. He is the father of five children and remains actively involved in community organizing and neighborhood development.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1973837315
• ISBN 13: 9781973837312
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg