Monday, February 28, 2022 | 6:30 – 7:30 PM ET
Join author and Penn Senior Lecturer Donald Bogle for an interactive online discussion of his new edition of his book Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography. Donald Bogle is a senior lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies and is one of the foremost authorities on African Americans in films and entertainment history. He is also the prize-winning author of nine books.
This program, free and open to all, is co-hosted by Alumni Education the Center for Africana Studies and co-sponsored by Penn Spectrum Programs and the Black Alumni Society.
You can find the book at your local library or online here.
Donald Bogle, one of the foremost authorities on African Americans in films and entertainment history, is the prize-winning author of nine books, including the groundbreaking, iconic Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in Films, which is now in its 5th edition.
He has also written the critically acclaimed Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters; Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television; and the social history Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood which looks at the early years of African Americans in Los Angeles as they struggled to make a place for themselves in the film industry. His book Brown Sugar: Over One Hundred Years of America’s Black Female Superstars was adapted by Bogle into a four-part PBS documentary series. He is also the author of the recent Hollywood Black: The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers with a Foreword by the late director John Singleton. Bogle’s celebrated book Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography, which is considered a classic Hollywood biography, has just been re-issued with a new introduction.
Bogle has appeared on numerous television and radio shows and in such documentaries as Spike Lee’s Jim Brown: All-American. A frequent commentator on Turner Classic Movies, Bogle conceived and co-hosted TCM’s award-winning series Race and Hollywood.
Film historian Leonard Maltin wrote: “No one knows more (or has written more extensively) about the history of African-American contributions to cinema than Donald Bogle.” “Let’s all nod in appreciation to Donald Bogle for putting everything in historical perspective,” filmmaker Spike Lee has written. “Mr. Bogle continues to be our most noted Black-cinema historian.”
Donald Bogle teaches at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.