Tragic no more: Mixed-race women and the nexus of sex and celebrity

Tragic no More: Mixed-race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity

Volumn 9781613762257, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-160

  Streeter, Caroline A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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246. Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).
247. Talalay, Composition in Black and White, 224.
248. Nella Larsen, Quicksand and Passing, 53, 55.
249. W. E. B. Du Bois, "On the Training of Black Men", Atlantic Monthly, September 1902.
250. Talalay, Composition in Black and White, 273.
251. Love across the Color Line, ed. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and Kathy Peiss (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996).
252. Shirley Taylor Haizlip, The Sweeter the Juice (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
253. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, On Lynchings (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2002);
254. Sandra Gunning, Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
255. Thelma Berlack-Boozer, "Interracial Marriage in America Is Workable-Here's Positive Proof", In the Woman's World (column), New York Amsterdam News, May 20, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
256. Talalay, Composition in Black and White, 42.
257. Scott Minerbrook, Divided to the Vein: A Journey into Race and Family (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996);
258. James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (New York, Riverhead Books, 1996).
259. Gregory Howard Williams, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black (New York: Dutton, 1995).
260. Hettie Jones, How I Became Hettie Jones (New York: Grove Press, 1996).
261. Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby, Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992)
262. Hazel V. Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood;
263. Barbara T. Christian, Black Woman Novelists;
264. Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race, and Class;
265. Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter
266. Deborah Gray White, Ar'n't I a Woman?
267. Hortense Spillers, "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book", Black, White, and in Color.
268. Eva Saks, "Miscegenation Law", in Interracialism, ed. Sollors, 61-80.
269. Paul R. Spickard, Mixed Blood, 278.
270. Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989).
271. Thelma Berlack-Boozer, "House of Schuyler Centers on Philippa: Genius Desires to be Pianist-Composer Rather than Follow in Parents' Footsteps", In the Woman's World, New York Amsterdam News, August 1938 (SCRBC, NYPL).
272. Thelma Berlack-Boozer, "Interracial Marriage in America Is Workable-Here's Positive Proof", In the Woman's World, New York Amsterdam News, May 20, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
273. John Langston Gwaltney, Drylongso;
274. Dorothy West, The Wedding.
275. Gwaltney, Drylongso.
276. Gloria Wade-Gayles, "A Change of Heart about Matters of the Heart: An Anger Shift from Interracial Marriages to Real Problems", in Rooted Against the Wind: Personal Essays (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), 93.
277. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (A. C. McClurg, 1904).
278. Eva Saks, "Representing Miscegenation Law", in Interracialism, ed. Sollors.
279. United States Supreme Court, Loving v. Virginia, 388 United States 1. Appeal from the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. No. 395. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/388/1.html. Accessed August 1, 2008.
280. "George Schuylers have a baby girl", Baltimore African American, August 5, 1931
281. New York Amsterdam News, August 5, 1931 (SCRBC, NYPL).
282. Joseph W. Alsop Jr., "Harlem's Youngest Philosopher Parades Talent on 3rd Birthday", New York Herald Tribune, August 3, 1934 (SCRBC, NYPL).
283. Nora Holt, "Philipa [sic], Musical Prodigy, Seems to Improve with Age." New York Amsterdam News, August 12, 1944 (SCRBC, NYPL).
284. Maye Opitz and Katherine Oguntoye, eds., Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992);
285. Rebekah Walker, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (New York: Riverhead Books, 2001).
286. Edwin Black, War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (New York: Tunder's Mouth Press, 2003).
287. Joel Williamson, New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995);
288. F. James Davis, Who Is Black? One Nation's Definition;
289. Eva Saks, "Miscegenation Law"
290. "500 Young Pianists in Rating Contest: Negro Girl, 6, Adds Composition of Her Own to Repertoire Works by Masters", Cincinnati Union, June 16, 1938;
291. "Harlem Girl, 6, Wins Medal as Pianist in City Contest: Philippa Schuyler, Composer of 30 Pieces, Honored in Finals on Mall", New York Post, June 20, 1938;
292. "Harlem Prodigy 6 Today, Turns More Musical: Own and Classical Works Now Accorded Place in Repertoire of Negro Girl", New York Herald Tribune, August 2, 1937, all SCRBC, NYPL.
293. "What Happens to Negro Child Geniuses", Jet, December 11, 1952 (44-48);
294. "Uncle Sam's Top Genius: Prodigy of a Black and White Marriage Whose Mentality Baffles Science", Color, December 1952 (SCRBC, NYPL).
295. "A Pianist-Poet Reaches 6 and Still She's No Prodigy: Harlem Parents Credit Intellectual Attainments of Child to Training and Diet, as Usual-But You Should Hear Girl Spell and Play", New York Herald Tribune, August 2, 1937 (SCRBC, NYPL).
296. Bernice Dutrielle, "Philippa Schuyler, Youthful Prodigy, Sets Ole Quakertown on Its Musical Ear at Recital", Philadelphia Tribune, March 2, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
297. Charles Neville, "The Curse of Genius", Fall 1938 (no publication indicated) (SCRBC, NYPL).
298. "Philippa Schuyler Charms Here in Artistic Recital", Pittsburgh Courier, December 3, 1938;
299. "Brooklyn Y. W. C. A. Gives 11th Holiday Morning Muscle", New York Age, March 5, 1938;
300. "Big Audience Hears Child Musician", Boston Guardian, January 29, 1939.
301. "Philippa Is Given Gold Medal by Music League", The Pittsburgh Courier, June 17, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
302. P. David Marshall, Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
303. "Philippa's Day at the Fair", Time, July 1, 1940 (SCRBC, NYPL).
304. "The Shirley Temple of America's Negroes", Look, January 1, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
305. Edythe Robertson, "Music Education League Awards Presented at Radio City Theatre" (no newspaper noted, no date, most likely 1938) (SCRBC, NYPL).
306. Concert Program, The Crisis, April 1938 (SCRBC, NYPL).
307. Talalay, Composition in Black and White, 79.
308. "Women of Today Get Medallions", New York Amsterdam News, July 1, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
309. "Black Is Honored for Aid to Negro", New York Times, February 10, 1941;
310. "Harlem Girl, 6, Wins Medal as Pianist in City Contest: Philippa Schuyler, Composer of 30 Pieces, Honored in Finals on Mall", New York Post, June 20, 1938 (SCRBC, NYPL).
311. "Harlem Prodigy", Time, June 22, 1936;
312. "Philippa's Day at the Fair", Time, July 1, 1940;
313. Joseph Mitchell, "Reporter at Large: An Evening with a Gifted Child", New Yorker, August 31, 1940 (all SCRBC, NYPL).
314. "Philippa Schuyler Charms Here in Artistic Recital", Pittsburgh Courier, December 3, 1938 (SCRBC, NYPL).
315. Thelma Berlack-Boozer, "Interracial Marriage in America Is Workable-Here's Positive Proof", New York Amsterdam News, In the Woman's World, May 20, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
316. Bernice Dutrielle, "Philippa Schuyler, Youthful Prodigy, Sets Ole Quakertown on Its Musical Ear at Recital", Philadelphia Tribune, March 2, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
317. "Big Audience Hears Child Musician", Boston Guardian, January 29, 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
318. Beatrice Adair, "Harlem's Child Prodigy", Silhouette (Los Angeles Pictorial Magazine), April 1939 (SCRBC, NYPL).
319. "Musical Genius Is Six Years Old", Washington Tribune, August 7, 1937 (SCRBC, NYPL).
320. "Philippa's Six: Celebrates Natal Day in Parisian Dress", New York Amsterdam News, August 7, 1937;
321. "Philippa Is Given Gold Medal by Music League", Pittsburgh Courier, June 17, 1939;
322. "Cuba Loves Phillipa [sic]", Music Notes, New York Amsterdam News, September 27, 1952 (all SCRBC, NYPL).
323. "Meet the George Schuylers, America's Strangest Family", Our World, April 1951 (23-26) (SCRBC, NYPL).
324. "One Last Look Around in 1949: Beautiful Genius", Pittsburgh Courier, December 31, 1949.
325. "At seventeen takes her place among our most beautiful women. " Atlanta Daily World, 1950 (SCRBC, NYPL). (In 1950 Schuyler turned nineteen.)
326. Alton Adams, "Philippa Duke Schuyler: A Paradoxical Genius", Photo News (St. Thomas Virgin Islands), February 15, 1950 (SCRBC, NYPL).
327. Charlotte Amalie, "Capacity Audience Hails Pianist" Photo News, March 15, 1950 (SCRBC, NYPL).
328. Kitty Kingston, "Philippa Schuyler-the incredible", Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica), April 1952 (SCRBC, NYPL).
329. Felipe Elosegui, "1000 Noticias en Sepia", Excelsior (Havana, Cuba), May 1952 (SCRBC, NYPL).
330. "Cuba Loves Phillipa: Poetry Joins Music for Delightful Eve", Music Notes, New York Amsterdam News, September 27, 1952 (SCRBC, NYPL).
331. Philippa Schuyler, "Why I Don't Marry", Ebony, July 1958 (78-84);
332. "A Pianist Tours the Congo", Hue 6, no. 7(May 1959):56-59;
333. "She's Been There", Review of "My Adventures in Black and White", Sepia, March 1961;
334. Philippa Schuyler, "My Black and White World", Sepia, June 1962 (10-15) (SCRBC, NYPL).
335. "Europe's Elite Heard America's Music Envoy", Color (News O' The World), April 1954 (39);
336. "Notables Hear Pianist Speak on African Tour", New York Age, April 26, 1958;
337. "A Pianist Tours the Congo", Hue 6, no. 7(May 1959):56-59 (SCRBC, NYPL).
338. Nora Holt, "Sylvia Olden-Lee, Concert Pianist", (Music) New York Amsterdam News, July 29, 1944 (SCRBC, NYPL).
339. Talalay, Composition in Black and White, 129, 145, 183 (SCRBC, NYPL).
340. "NBC Grooms a New Piano Star (Natalie Hinderas)", Jet, November 5, 1953, 60-61 (SCRBC, NYPL).
341. "Europe's Elite Heard America's Music Envoy", Color, April 1954 (SCRBC, NYPL).
342. "Philippa Schuyler Makes Debut at Town Hall", Jet, May 28, 1953, 59 (SCRBC, NYPL).
343. Philippa Schuyler, "My Black and White World", Sepia, June 1962, 13 (SCRBC, NYPL).
344. James Baldwin, "The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American", Ideas Across Time: Classic and Contemporary Readings for Composition, ed. Igor Webb (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008), 29-35.
345. Felipa Monterro clippings file, 1960-1965.
346. Kerry Ann Rocquemore and David L. Brunsma, Beyond Black;
347. Kathleen Odell Korgen, From Black to Biracial;
348. Kimberly McClain Da Costa, Making Multiracials;
349. Kim M. Williams, Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America;
350. Lise Funderberg, Black, White, Other.