Donald Bogle

Donald Bogle is the author of the groundbreaking Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, a classic study of Black movie images; as well as the acclaimed biography Dorothy Dandridge; the bestselling Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood; and Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television. Mr. Bogle’s newly updated Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars has been adapted for a highly successful four-part documentary series for PBS. He teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York City.