African Americans in the Comics | via SEQUENTIAL CRUSH

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Watch Race, Romance and the Comic Book on PBS. See more from History Detectives.

Lupe Vélez's Talents! Watch as She Mimics Dolores del Río, Simone Simon, Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple

Who Does Not Need Whiter Skin? Another Chapter in the History of Racialized Commodity Fetishism

Another Chapter in the History of Pulp Fiction and the Latina Bombshell

Huge thanks to Oliver Mayer, the amazing LA-based playwright and USC profe, for sending me a postcard featuring Sheldon Lord's lurid Puta novel--also known as Born to be Bad.   I did a little hunting and found this on the web--I will post the postcard shortly...  (Sheldon Lord is also known as Lawrence Block).

Here is the postcard Oliver sent me--from a San Diego outlet, no less...

Classic 1941 Rita Hayworth Photo, Shot by Bob Landry (via Heritage Auctions)

 

 

 

 

 

Rita Hayworth by Bob Landry (Columbia, 1941)

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