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Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe (Hardcover)
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Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe (Hardcover)
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Creating a sensation with her risque nightclub act and strolls down
the Champs Elysees, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in
popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In
Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe, Matthew Pratt Guterl brings
out a little known side of the celebrated personality, showing how
her ambitions of later years were even more daring and subversive
than the youthful exploits that made her the first African American
superstar. Her performing days numbered, Baker settled down in a
sixteenth-century chateau she named Les Milandes, in the south of
France. Then, in 1953, she did something completely unexpected and,
in the context of racially sensitive times, outrageous. Adopting
twelve children from around the globe, she transformed her estate
into a theme park, complete with rides, hotels, a collective farm,
and singing and dancing. The main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe,
the family of the future, which showcased children of all skin
colors, nations, and religions living together in harmony. Les
Milandes attracted an adoring public eager to spend money on a
utopian vision, and to worship at the feet of Josephine, mother of
the world. Alerting readers to some of the contradictions at the
heart of the Rainbow Tribe project--its undertow of child
exploitation and megalomania in particular--Guterl concludes that
Baker was a serious and determined activist who believed she could
make a positive difference by creating a family out of the
troublesome material of race.
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