April 7, 2022
Donald Bogle is the award-winning African American film historian, teacher, lecturer, and author of nine books on Black images in American motion pictures and television, including his seminal Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, the first major study of African American images in American motion pictures. Mr. Bogle’s other books include Prime Time Blues (a history of Blacks on television); Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood; Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars; Dorothy Dandridge, the definitive biography of the Black movie star; and Hollywood Black: The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers (a TCM Film Book).
