American cocktail : a "colored girl" in the world / Anita Reynolds with Howard M. Miller ; edited and with introduction and notes by George Hutchinson ; foreword by Patricia Williams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2014Description: viii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674073050
  • 0674073053
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/8092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.97.R49 A3 2014
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Contents:
Foreword / by Patricia Williams -- Introduction / by George Hutchinson -- A note on the text / by George Hutchinson -- American cocktail -- Appendix 1: Publications by Anita Reynolds -- Appendix 2: Anita Reynolds's correspondence with family.
Summary: "Rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Of racially mixed heritage, Anita Reynolds was proudly African American but often passed for Indian, Mexican, or Creole. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, but above all free-spirited provocateur, she was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an "American cocktail." One of the first black stars of the silent era, she appeared in Hollywood movies with Rudolph Valentino, attended Charlie Chaplin's anarchist meetings, and studied dance with Ruth St. Denis. She moved to
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Patricia Williams -- Introduction / by George Hutchinson -- A note on the text / by George Hutchinson -- American cocktail -- Appendix 1: Publications by Anita Reynolds -- Appendix 2: Anita Reynolds's correspondence with family.

"Rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Of racially mixed heritage, Anita Reynolds was proudly African American but often passed for Indian, Mexican, or Creole. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, but above all free-spirited provocateur, she was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an "American cocktail." One of the first black stars of the silent era, she appeared in Hollywood movies with Rudolph Valentino, attended Charlie Chaplin's anarchist meetings, and studied dance with Ruth St. Denis. She moved to

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