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A boy of poor Jamaican immigrants who was raised in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first dark-colored performer to get artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television set and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential players on the American arena in the ages following World Warfare II - from Paul Robeson to Ed Sullivan, John Kennedy to Stokely Carmichael - Belafonte set up his place in American culture as a hugely popular vocalist, matinee idol, internationalist, and champion of civil privileges, black take great pride in, and black vitality. In Becoming Belafonte, Judith E. Smith presents the first full-length interpretive review of the multitalented artist. She pieces Belafonte's compelling report within a brief history of American contest relations, black movie theater and film background, McCarthy-era hysteria, and the troubles of adding multifaceted dark-colored culture in an instant of expanding press possibilities and constrained politics appearance. Smith traces Belafonte's origins in the radical politics of the 1940s, his careful negotiation of the intricate troubles of the Chilly Warfare 1950s, and his full flowering as a civil privileges advocate and internationally acclaimed performer in the 1960s. In Smith's consideration, Belafonte emerges as a relentless activist, a questing intellectual, and a tireless organizer.
