Jane White Papers, 1924-2001 (ongoing)

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Jane White Papers, 1924-2001 (ongoing)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60328515

The Jane White Papers include scripts, newspaper clippings, notes, publicity, correspondence, audiotapes, interviews, scrapbooks, and photographs. These materials, enhanced by White's eloquent self-reflections in interviews generated by her work on stage, document the career of a versatile performer. Her tenuous place on the color line brings into relief the shifting perceptions of racial identity over the span of the civil rights era and beyond, particularly as they became staged in the ultimate realm of performativity, professional theatre. There is evidence of how she constructed her characters and executed performances. While the collection primarily documents White's professional carreer, and to a lesser extent, that of her husband Alfredo Viazzi, her perspective on her prominent family lends insight into her parents Walter and Gladys White.

3.75 linear ft. (5 boxes; poster in flat file)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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White, Jane, 1948-

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Actress. Jane White was born in 1922, daughter of Walter White, author and Executive Secretary of the NAACP, and Gladys (Powell). The Whites stood among the elites of the Harlem Renaissance. Known as the "White House of Harlem," their apartment in the fashionable Sugar Hill neighborhood served as the setting for a range of cultural and political events with such guests as James Weldon Johnson, Paul and Essie Robeson, Carl Van Vechten, and George Gershwin. After earning a...

White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955

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