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Performing Arts

Lin-Manuel Miranda : Award-Winning Actor, Rapper, Writer, and Composer by Theresa Morlock

Miranda wrote and starred in the broadway musical Hamilton, which has won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and several Tony Awards.

He is known for his enthusiasm, originality, and efforts encouraging young people to pursue an education in music.

Black Oscars : From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans by Frederick Gooding Jr.

This timely book provides a thorough analysis and overview of black actors nominated for the Oscars by decade, beginning in the 1920s.

The results beg the question: have these awards changed substantively or only superficially in their treatment of minorities?

American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

Native Americans have been portrayed as violent and uncivilized throughout history, especially in film. This book analyzes the characterization of indigenous people in cinema from the 1890s to now, as well as efforts to improve their own on-screen representation.

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