CAMILLE F. FORBES
Author * Historian * Performer

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	MY WORK THE BOOK: Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star Synopsis Praise Excerpt OTHER PUBLICATIONS: "Dancing with 'Racial Feet': Bert Williams and the Performance of Blackness" An analysis of Bert Williams's onstage and offstage interventions as a solo performer in vaudeville. "Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar of Ibn Said" An analysis of the rediscovered 1831 slave narrative of Muslim Omar ibn Said, studying the narrative's use of Arabic language and Qur'anic references. --Co-author with Ghada Osman Book Review, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Alison Goeller, EmBODYing Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance “Egbert Austin Williams” “George William Walker” Copyright © 2007 Camille F. Forbes. All Rights Reserved.		-Amazon -Barnes and Noble -Book Sense
			THE BOOK Synopsis Praise Excerpt Quick Links Camille F. Forbes on MySpace Williams in "A Natural Born Gambler" American Vaudeville Museum NMAAHC, Smithsonian E-mail Publicist: Tim Brazier, Basic Civitas Authors Guild

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