Mel Watkins: 3 books
Stepin Fetchit
The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the best actor that the talking movies have produced,”...
On the Real Side
A History of African American Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos ’n’ Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans...
Continental Crucible
Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The crucible of North American neoliberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pancontinental and a class struggle perspective. This book also illustrates the...